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Assess your billing/collections process by asking the right questions
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Vital Signs
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 894
Abstract: One area that every medical practice should regularly assess is billing/collections. Asking the right questions, and investigating the responses if necessary, can help management decide whether there’s an issue that needs to be addressed. This article provides a handy checklist to do just that.
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PRIDE and the 4 C’s of quality care — A winning combination
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Vital Signs
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 1062
Abstract: The solution to running a successful medical practice appears to be simple: Provide quality care and patients will be satisfied, right? Not so. To be successful in today’s practice environment, physician offices must address two aspects of quality — patient service and medical care. This article looks at two ways to boost the “patient service” part of the equation: 1) a program called Personal Responsibility In Delivering Excellence, or PRIDE©, and 2) the four C’s of quality care.
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Risky business – Measuring and managing interest rate risk
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Community Banking Advisor
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 793
Abstract: Community banks are exposed to credit, market, liquidity, trading and operational risks. A key responsibility of bank directors and senior management is to understand, monitor and manage this quintet of financial dangers, including interest rate risk (a component of market risk), which can have a profound impact on a bank’s financial condition.
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BIG opportunity for S corporation sales
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Community Banking Advisor
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 787
Abstract: Banks and other financial institutions have been allowed to elect S corporation status since 1997, and thousands have taken advantage of this tax-saving opportunity. As institutions enter the second decade of their conversion to S status, a new benefit emerges: the ability to structure the sale of the business as an asset sale without triggering built-in gain (BIG) taxes.
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Fair game – How the fair value option changes the accounting playing field
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Community Banking Advisor
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 584
Abstract: As part of its march toward fair value accounting, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently finalized Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, which applies to fiscal years starting after Nov. 15, 2007. Banks now have the option to measure certain financial instruments at fair value.
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Identity theft prevention – Deadline for FTC-required program rapidly approaching
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 661
Abstract: Attending online seminars, installing special software and consulting with professional advisors are among the efforts being made by dealerships as they gear up to meet federal requirements for having an in-house identity theft prevention program. If you haven’t started working on your own program, you need to get going.
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What’s your optimal sales staff level?
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 779
Abstract: It’s easy to keep adding employees when sales are high. After all, there’s plenty of work to do and profits to go around. But things change in a down market. There’s no time like the present to review your staffing levels — monitoring this variable is critical to holding your expenses in check.
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Revving up sales in a down market
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 785
Abstract: From giving time-hungry Internet shoppers the fastest service possible to asking your manufacturer for advertising help, there are tactics a dealership can use in a slow market to pick up the pace. With most buyers now using the Internet as part of the process, you can benefit from paying attention to what’s important to customers as they surf their way to a new set of keys.