Case Study : Cost Value

With the gas prices rising up every year, it seems like traveling by car is about the same price as flying. The big advantage over bus, car, and train is saving time which is huge to customers who cannot leave their job for a long period of time without being fired or replaced.

Altogether, it would cost $35.94 to transport three-hundred pounds of goods along the 676.8-mile track

The AHRQ organization has several portfolios’ that are funded and supports research projects. Such portfolios are information technology, health patient safety, prevention and care management, and value portfolios. Within these portfolio’s, grants are there to fund new projects that relate to each category. Within each portfolio, research has been started and effectiveness of these projects is underway. Some clinical research projects are a set of priority conditions of importance to the Medicaid, Medicare, and SCHIP programs. Projected initiatives are to improve quality of care. The Value portfolio finds ways to reduce unnecessary cost and waste while maintaining or improving quality without adding cost which is a critical, national need (2012, p.5).

The chart above shows a graphic comparison regarding the different gas prices at the two different Marathon locations. This graph shows a visual trend of each of the various gasoline prices. According to the data recorded, the gasoline prices at the Angola Marathon throughout the week were, on average, about fourteen cents more per gallon than at the Muncie Marathon. The prices of gasoline at the Muncie Marathon declined, on average, about four cents per gallon per day throughout the week. While the gas prices at the Muncie Marathon continuously decreased each day, the gas prices at the Angola Marathon varied each day. Within the first three days, the gas prices at the Angola Marathon decreased about two and a half cents each day, on average. On the last day data was recorded, the trend at the Angola Marathon was reversed, and the price of gas increased by one cent.

According to the CMSA (Case Management Society of America) and several others organizations that case management alone means that it is a collective system that helps the patient and their family needs through the communication, available resources of promoted quality, and cost-effective outcomes.

As the prices of fuel increase nationwide, it isn’t only the local residents that feel the pinch of higher fuel prices. Those responsible for fueling ambulances, fire engines, and police cars are also battling the soaring transportation costs.

22. A boat, costing $108,000 and uninsured, was wrecked the very first day it was used. It can either be disposed of for

Presently, cost and quality in health care are both indicators that are benchmarked in determining best healthcare practice. Two organizations both work towards meeting these objectives in healthcare, The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a public agency and the Commonwealth Fund, a private agency.

The Affordable Healthcare Act has opened up opportunities for many citizens across the United States. Since the bill passed in 2010, the United States Health Department has recorded “about 16.4 million uninsured people have gained health coverage” (2014). Now that many people have been granted the chance to receive a regular check-up from the doctor’s office or go to the emergency room to receive urgent care, there are not enough primary health care professionals to assist those who are in need. The shortage of health care professionals has become a rising problem in the United States. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) over the next 10 years the United States is expected to have a shortage of primary care doctors

Everywhere around the nation redundant federal programs are leading to billions of dollars in waste, and the government somehow, is slow to adopt reforms to fix the situation. The White House needs to recognize and be aware of the problem to propose an elimination of redundant programs in the Federal, State, and local Government.

The excessive cost of travel for both the East and West Coast Boat Forces and

What would you do to keep the doughnuts in your church every Sunday? When the finance committee had to cut the church’s doughnuts, Monte Chamberlin had seen enough budget cuts to last a lifetime. When the committee adjourned, Monte set out to save the cherished Sunday morning doughnuts—which served as a time of fellowship, sharing and caring. What he found was a way to leverage a coalition of churches to buy 200,000 doughnuts annually and reduce the church’s total expenses. Because of a doughnut, Monte founded Cost Stewardship, a company that finds abandoned or unknown refunds available from government agencies and utility providers.

Adding the estimated 5 year cost of fuel, cost of maintenance, cost of repairs, and the loss of value (depreciation) of the vehicle gives us our estimated ownership costs for a vehicle after a 5 - year period.

A fueling station is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold today are petrol known as gasoline, gas or diesel fuel.

Spokane Industries has contracted Franklin Electronics for an 18 month product development contract. Franklin Electronics is new to using project management methodologies and have not been exposed to earned value management methodologies. Even though Franklin and Spokane have worked together in the past, they have mainly used fixed price contracts with little to no stipulations. For this project Spokane Industries is requiring Franklin Electronics to use formalized project management methodologies, earned value cost schedules, and schedules for reports and meetings. Since Franklin Electronics had had no experience with earned value management, the cost accounting group was trained in the methodology in order to bid for the