Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

In your initial post, identify and recommend at least 1 credible Web site that an investor can visit to find the current and past financial statements of publicly traded companies. There are 4 primary financial statements that are used in financial statement analysis. They are the balance sheet (or statement of financial position), the income statement (or the statement of operations), the statement of changes in shareholders’ equity, and the statement of cash flows.

For this activity, each student should choose at least 1 of these statements and discuss the following:

• What is the purpose of this financial statement?
• What are the primary components of this financial statement, and what do they represent?
• Who are the primary users of this statement and how is it generally used?
• What GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) are employed in its construction?
• How does this financial statement relate to the other financial statements?

Be sure to document your statements with credible sources, in-text citations, and references using proper APA format.

Creative Project #1. The project includes three parts. You must include (1) a description of the project which states what the project is (e.g., “My project is a poem”), (2) an explanation of how the project relates to the selected reading, and (3) the project itself. You may upload up to 3 files. You can also write your project as an online text or submit a video file. If you are working in a group, each member must submit all three parts of the creative project.

Health care Providers may volunteer to be accredited by an external body. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid provide an updated list of approved accrediting organizations. For this discussion, we are focusing on the acute care hospital. Below are fourteen of the categories in The Joint Commission Standards Manual and accreditation process topics. The topics for this discussion are assigned by students’ last names. See the chart below for your assigned topic. For your assigned topic, you will need to access The Joint Commission Standards Manual and The Joint Commission’s publication The Source. To access this information follow the steps below:

From the homepage of the Ashford University library, click on Find Articles & More in the purple bar near the top of the page. Next, take the following steps:

• Click on Databases by Subject
• Click on Health & Medicine
• Click on Joint Commission E-dition for the Standards manual
• Click on Joint Commission The Source
• Select two journal articles from The Source that were published within the past 3 years pertaining to your assigned topic.
• Identify and summarize the two articles chosen.  Your reponse should reflect  the standard,  how it is utilized and why it is important in health care, any best practice mentioned, summary of any forms or template shared and any other information that surprised you.

Initial Post: Your initial post should be 250 to 300 words. In addition to the textbook, utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources to support your points. Cite and reference your sources in APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 

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