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2. ACC 281 Course Tutorial ACC 281 Entire Course (Ash Course) ACC 281 Week 1 DQ 1 Basic Accounting Equation • Basic Accounting Equation. What are the implications of the basic accounting equation? You must respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings to receive full credit • Why is Accounting Needed? How would healthcare companies operate without accounting? Why do we need financial and managerial accounting and what are the fundamental differences between the two? You must • ACC 281 Week 1 DQ 1 Basic Accounting Equation • Business - General Business • Basic Accounting Equation. What are the implications of the basic accounting equation? You must respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings to receive full credit 

3. ACC 281 Course Tutorial ACC 281 Week 1 DQ 2 Why is accounting needed ACC 281 Week 1 DQ 3 Health Care Spending • ACC 281 Week 1 DQ 2 Why is accounting needed • Business - General Business • Why is Accounting Needed? How would healthcare companies operate without accounting? Why do we need financial and managerial accounting and what are the fundamental differences between the two? You must respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings to receive full credit  • ACC 281 Week 1 DQ 3 Health Care Spending • Business - General Business • Health Care Spending. Review the information provided at the following website: http://www.govspot.com/features/healthcare.htm. Discuss the major financial challenges of Health Care reform. You must respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings to receive full credit 

4. ACC 281 Course Tutorial ACC 281 Week 2 DQ Debit Credit ACC 281 Week 2 Understanding Real World Financial Reports • ACC 281 Week 2 DQ Debit Credit • Business - General Business • Debit/Credit. Read and respond to question #31 from page 156. You must respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings to receive full credit.  • ACC 281 Week 2 Understanding Real World Financial Reports • Business - General Business • Understanding Real World Financial Reports. In a 1-2 page paper, respond to question ATC 4-1 on page 166.

5. ACC 281 Course Tutorial ACC 281 Week 3 DQ 1 Enron ACC 281 Week 3 DQ 2 Corporations and Partnerships • ACC 281 Week 3 DQ 1 Enron • Business - General Business • Enron. Read and respond to ATC 7-7 on page 285. This situation is similar to the Enron scandal from several years ago. Use the Ashford Online Library to research Enron accounting procedures • In your post, discuss how these accounting procedures affected the company and stockholders. • ACC 281 Week 3 DQ 2 Corporations and Partnerships • Business - General Business • Corporations and Partnerships. Read and respond to ATC 8-6 on page 319. In your post, describe the advantages and disadvantages of organization forms. Include why most large public health care organizations use the corporate form.

6. ACC 281 Course Tutorial ACC 281 Week 3 Methods of Analysis ACC 281 Week 4 DQ 1 Value added principle • ACC 281 Week 3 Methods of Analysis • Business - General Business • Methods of Analysis. In a 2 to 3 page paper, evaluate the three methods of analysis: horizontal, vertical, and ratio as explained in Chapter 9 of your textbook. Summarize each method, and discuss how the financial information is used to make a particular decision. Provide a scenario in a health care • ACC 281 Week 4 DQ 1 Value added principle • Business - General Business • Value Added Principle. From Chapter 10 complete question 2, page 382, on how the value added principle applies to managerial accounting information. Give at least one example of value added information used by a health care organization.

7. ACC 281 Course Tutorial ACC 281 Week 4 DQ 2 Product costing ACC 281 Week 4 Final Paper Preparation • ACC 281 Week 4 DQ 2 Product costing • Business - General Business • Product Costing. From Chapter 10 complete question 3, page 382, on why product costing is different between financial and managerial accounting. What advantage does product costing offer over financial accounting? • ACC 281 Week 4 Final Paper Preparation • Business - General Business • Final Paper Preparation. Research and select the journal articles you will use as sources for your final paper. Summarize the articles and prepare a brief outline. 

8. ACC 281 Course Tutorial ACC 281 Week 5 DQ 2 Master Budget ACC 281 Week 5 Final Paper • ACC 281 Week 5 DQ 2 Master Budget • Business - General Business • Master Budget. From Chapter 14 complete question 2, page 516, on the master budget process. Your post should address how this would work in a health care setting. You must respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings to receive full credit.  • ACC 281 Week 5 Final Paper • Business - General Business • Focus of the Final Paper • Write an 8 to 10 page Case Analysis of the following article (which can be found in the Ashford Online ProQuest database):

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