9/29/2020· Appraisal & Valuation
Part 2: AIRA Issues New Standards for Distressed Business Valuation
By: Michael Pakter
In this second article on AIRA Standards, the author discusses unique issues valuing distressed companies. These include the standard of value used, the premise of value, the intended use of the valuation, and cost of capital.
9/24/2020· Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals
Hospital Cost Accounting: Million Dollar Decisions Should Not Be Based on “Guesstimates”
By: Sahel Shwayhat, MBA, FACHE
All well-run businesses use data to drive their decisions. The higher the stakes, the more accuracy they demand from their data. Hospitals are businesses, even not-for-profit ones, and should conduct their operations like any other business. The area where hospitals lag far behind other businesses is in cost accounting.
9/22/2020· Postal Services
Mail-In Voting: Documentation Of Mail Between Voters And Election Boards
By: Peter Wade
USPS technology affords every customer the ability to document the date that mail addressed to them is available for delivery. The Postal Service takes an image of each standard sized piece of letter mail that will be delivered to every address in the United States every day.
9/16/2020· Education & Schools
Getting Students Back To School During COVID-19
By: Ned Einstein
Because of social distancing, classrooms and schoolbuses can only be filled to one-fourth of their capacities. This constraint alone requires that a broad range of dramatic changes be made in order for our children to return to physical school without placing out entire population at greater risk than we already are.
9/4/2020· Emergency Medicine
COVID-19: The Worst Is Yet To Come
By: Dr. Sajid Khan
We are in the midst of a global pandemic the likes of which we have never before seen in our lifetime. Every day a new record high number of cases and number of deaths is reached. While the number affected physically, emotionally, and economically spirals out of control, here is something that will serve as a gut check: these will be remembered as the good old days.
8/27/2020· Fall Protection Solutions / Confined Spaces Safety
Property Wide Fall Protection Program - A Case Study
By: Rauch Safety and Engineering
Ranch Safety was appointed by the client to facilitate the development of a comprehensive, property wide fall protection strategy and to work with clients U.S. and international design and operations internal resources teams, together with external multicultural project critical members which included architects, engineers, government authorities and contractors
8/19/2020· Radiology
Radiology Volumes Are Different From What Finance Is Reporting. Why Does That Keep Happening?
By: Sahel Shwayhat, MBA, FACHE
Many of us who have worked in hospitals have been there; you are in a meeting with Finance, and their handouts have what is supposed to be Radiology volumes, but they are different from what Radiology’s internal reports show. So, whose numbers are right?
8/14/2020· Medicine
Plantar Puncture Wounds - Are Antibiotics Necessary?
By: Dr. Sajid Khan
Plantar puncture wounds are common and the anatomy of the foot makes it an excellent environment for infection to rapidly spread. Puncture wounds in particular can inoculate bacteria deep into the soft tissues.
8/5/2020· Transportation
Motorcoach Survival In The Age Of COVID-19 (Part 2)
By: Ned Einstein
Hopes, dreams, truth, lies, prayers and politics aside, one of the burning industry questions is: How do we get on the road again? In Part 1 of this series, I outlined a number of important roles motorcoaches could and should have played immediately when the outbreak began. Performance of these roles would have helped the country cope with the virus. It would have helped the industry, its businesses and its drivers survive it. It would have negated the related interruption in production, marketing, sales and maintenance of vehicles in support of this continuity.
7/26/2020· Accounting
How To Identify A Company's Financial Distress By Using Cash Flow Statements
By: Michael Pakter
It is essential that creditors, managers, and shareholders - as well as the attorneys who advise them - timely identify and respond to signs of a company’s financial distress. Financial distress, according to Investopedia, “is a condition in which a company or individual cannot generate revenue or income because it is unable to meet or cannot pay its financial obligations
