QUESTION 1
1. Please provide a detailed summary of the case.
QUESTION 2
1. Interpret the information from the hospital’s financial statements: income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows. Please clearly list and explain 10 indicators. Please ensure to identify and explain any trends or causes for concern. Why?
Please ensure to number your indicators and use actual numbers in your response
QUESTION 3
1. Using the financial ratios perform a detailed financial analysis of Grandview Medical Center. Please do the following: use at two per category, discuss why the calculated ratios were selected, and discuss any trends which could be identified over the three-year period (2016-2018).
Include and organize response according to the following subtitles: Profitability, Liquidity, Debt, and Asset Management
Please ensure to use actual numbers in your response
Included calculations on a word or excel document and submit under the Student Supplemental Data link.
QUESTION 4
1. Using the Du Pont equation, please analyze the hospital’s financial position. Please support your results with information from the financial statements.
Please ensure to use actual numbers in your response
. Included calculations on a word or excel document and submit under the Student Supplemental Data link
QUESTION 5
1. Using the operating ratios given in the lecture packet, please analyze and the operational factors that help explain the hospitals current financial condition. Please clearly list and explain 10 indicators. Please ensure to identify any trends or causes for concern.
Please ensure to use actual numbers in your response
Included calculations on a word or excel document and submit under the Student Supplemental Data link.
Please ensure to number your indicators
QUESTION 6
1. Based on your evaluation of questions 1-6, provide an evaluation summary of the hospitals financial condition. Please ensure to present your views on the potential underlying economic and managerial factors that might have caused any problems that surfaced in the financial and operating analysis.
Please identify and explain at least 5 factors.
Please ensure to number your factors.
QUESTION 7
1. Grandview’s cost of capital is 4 percent, please calculate and explain the results of the economic value analysis (EVA). Please also discuss the applicability of the EVA analysis to organizations such as Grandview hospital.
Please ensure to use actual numbers in your response
QUESTION 8
1. Given all of the information in the case (background information, financial analysis, operating analysis, and EVA analysis), perform a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)
analysis on Grandview Medical Center. Please list and explain at least two examples for each category in the analysis. Please ensure that the information used in the SWOT analysis is derived from the case.
Please ensure to use the SWOT headings in your response
QUESTION 9
1. Please explain and rank (from most likely to implement to least likely to implement) at least five recommendations the hospital should follow to ensure financial soundness. Please ensure that the recommendations are based upon the data in the case.
Please number your recommendations (1= most likely; 5 = least likely).