Management Accounting Virgin Money Case Study Strategic Management Accounting Strategic management accounting is making management accounting more strategic. Some scalars argue that there is no single definition can explain what constitutes strategic management. However, strategic management accounting may include both financial and nonfinancial elements such as branding. Virgin Money has used strategic management accounting practices … Read more
Poverty Health and poverty have been inseparable with regard to which causes the other (Combat Poverty Agency, 2005). Their relationship has created a thin line concerning which causes the other. However, a close examination of the two demonstrates that poverty is the cause of poor health in the community. People with low income levels face … Read more
Public Health Definitions of public health Public health is both an art as well as a science that relates to the prevention of diseases, health promotion as well as prolonging the life of people by the use of organized efforts in the community. It therefore involves a practice that is responsible for disease prevention coupled … Read more
Obama’s Health Care Bill: Reform in America’s Health Care President Barrack Obama, after the historic occasion and fete of being sworn in as America’s 45th President and 1st Black-American President, embarked on a number of key missions in his first term of office. Among them included the difficult work of cleaning up the post-global financial … Read more
Opinions on Articles The article drug companies and doctors: A story of corruption by Marcia Angell (2009) provides an insight into the dealings between the health care physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. Personally, I agree with the article’s argument that drug companies are commercializing drugs with little concern of the patient’s well-being. The article is … Read more
Operant Conditioning and Behavior Change Operant condition is the process where humans learn to behave in a particular way so as to avoid punishment or get rewards. This is also known as instrumental conditioning. According to skinners theory on operant conditioning led to the discovery of two basic concepts of the operant conditioning that is … Read more
The Agency Problem, Corporate Governance, and the Asymmetrical Behavior of Selling, General, and Administrative Costs The usefulness of SG&A (Selling, general and administrative) costs make practitioners to be attentive on its spending control (Chen, 257). Consequently, researchers and practitioners tend to understand the SG&A costs’ behavior and managers’ role in adjusting the costs. A study … Read more
Effects of Rising Cost of College Fees The cost of college education in the United States has become very high over a short period of time. From 2001 to 2011, two-year college institutions had increased their cost by about 55% (Archibald 22). This is a very short period for such a high increase in the … Read more
Political Embattlement related to programs for the aged Outline for Political Embattlement Related to Programs for the Aged Population Thesis Statement: To address the political embattlement of the programs related to the aged such as Medicaid, Medicare, disability, welfare and supplemental security income, and the older Americans Act Introduction In the United States, the older … Read more
Concept Analysis Introduction Smoking has been and continues to be a very critical issue in our societies today. This is primarily due to the harmful effects it has on people’s health. Leone and Landini (2010) observed that in the United States, tobacco smoking is one of the chief causes of preventable illness and premature … Read more