Ellis and Sandra, an elderly couple, come to you for some tax planning advice. They have $7,000,000 in cash assets and 4 children, 12 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. They want to establish a device that will hold their assets for the benefit of their children.

For estate tax planning reasons that I do not want you to worry about or consider in this assignment, they want to set up a trust or company that will manage their $7,000,000. They want the ownership of the assets to be divided among all of their descendants. Essentially, they will put all of the money into an entity and the ownership of the entity will be owned in essentially equal shares by all 37 of their beneficiaries.

Ellis and Sandra tell you that they are considering a few different possible strategies:

1) Setting up a trust to hold their money with all of their descendants as trust beneficiaries who will be entitled to the income generated by their shares of the trust and will be entitled to withdraw their shares in certain emergency cases.

2) Setting up a limited partnership or LLC to hold the money and gifting shares of the entity to all of their descendants.

3) Setting up a corporation to hold the money and gifting shares of the entity to all of their descendants. You ask them whether they mean a c-corp or an s-corp but they look at you blankly. They don’t have any idea what the difference is.

Since Ellis and Sandra have already hired another firm to work out transfer tax issues, they only want from you an analysis of the income tax ramifications of these possible plans.

Please write a letter to Ellis and Sandra of approximately 500-750 words (this is a ballpark figure, but please stick to something close to that guideline), explaining the income tax advantages and disadvantages to the family as a whole of each plan. Also, please recommend one of these three plans and explain why.

Overview

Create a 6–8-slide PowerPoint presentation that describes communication barriers within an interdisciplinary team and how those barriers affect patient safety and health care outcomes. Offer a solution in which you recommend evidence-based strategies to improve communication within the team and explain how the strategies benefit the team and patients.

The ability to effectively communicate as part of interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for patient safety and successful health care delivery.

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By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain the principles and practices of highly effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Describe communication barriers that can occur within an interdisciplinary team.
  • Recommend evidence-based strategies to improve communication within an interdisciplinary team.
  • Explain how specific communication strategies benefit both team members and patients.
• Competency 3: Explain the internal and external factors that can affect the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
  • Explain how communication barriers between members of an interdisciplinary team can affect patient safety and health care outcomes.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
  • Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, APA formatting, and mechanics.

  Context

  Effective communication is important in all organizations and is especially important in the area of health care. Communication can come in many forms, but the crucial factor is whether the communication is effective.SHOW LESS

  Collaboration among teams is important for the delivery of appropriate medical care and for providing the specialized skills necessary to meet the needs of patients and the public. Assessing the needs of a community may involve communication across several public service providers and private entities.

  Maintaining open communication and collaboration among teams is essential to assess the needs of a community or those of patients and their families within a health care system. The same communication skills must be evident within the interdisciplinary health care team, or across the public and private sectors in a community, in order to promote collaboration and understanding and to provide the utmost quality service.

• Assessment Instructions

  Imagine you are part of an interdisciplinary health care team in your organization. Although the team has been working together for several months, communication between members is not always efficient or effective, and the situation has become stressful for everyone. The team leader asks you to develop a presentation for the team that addresses the issue.

  Preparation

  Search the Capella library and the Internet for scholarly and professional peer-reviewed articles on communication. You will need at least three articles to use as support for your work on this assessment.

  Directions

  Create a 6–8-slide PowerPoint presentation to examine the communication issue and the risk it creates for positive health care outcomes.

  • Describe the types of communication barriers that occur within an interdisciplinary team.
  • Explain how the communication barriers can impact patient safety and health care outcomes.
  • Recommend specific evidence-based strategies to improve communication within the team.
  • Explain how the strategies will benefit team members and patients.

  Use the notes section of each slide to expand your points and cite your supporting evidence. Also, include a title slide and a reference slide that lists the resources you used in this assessment.

  Additional Requirements

  • Use APA format for citations and references.
  • Be creative. Consider your intended audience.

  Interdisciplinary Communication Scoring Guide

  CRITERIA	NON-PERFORMANCE	BASIC	PROFICIENT	DISTINGUISHED
  Describe communication barriers that can occur within an interdisciplinary team.	Does not describe communication barriers that can occur within an interdisciplinary team.	Lists communication barriers that can occur within an interdisciplinary team.	Describes communication barriers that can occur within an interdisciplinary team.	Describes communication barriers that can occur within an interdisciplinary team and considers barriers within different forms of communication, including written, verbal, and nonverbal.
  Explain how communication barriers between members of an interdisciplinary team can affect patient safety and health care outcomes.	Does not explain how communication barriers between members of an interdisciplinary team can affect patient safety and health care outcomes.	Explains how communication barriers between members of an interdisciplinary team can affect patient safety or health care outcomes, or the explanation is missing key elements.	Explains how communication barriers between members of an interdisciplinary team can affect patient safety and health care outcomes.	Explains how communication barriers between members of an interdisciplinary team can affect patient safety and health care outcomes, providing real-world examples that demonstrate in-depth understanding.
  Recommend evidence-based strategies to improve communication within an interdisciplinary team.	Does not recommend evidence-based strategies to improve communication within an interdisciplinary team.	Recommends strategies to improve communication within an interdisciplinary team but does not support recommendations with evidence.	Recommends evidence-based strategies to improve communication within an interdisciplinary team.	Recommends evidence-based strategies to improve communication within an interdisciplinary team and suggests ways to effectively implement the strategies
  Explain how specific communication strategies benefit both team members and patients.	Does not explain how specific communication strategies benefit both team members and patients.	Explains how specific communication strategies benefit either team members or patients, or the explanation does not address critical aspects.	Explains how specific communication strategies benefit both team members and patients.	Explains how specific communication strategies benefit team members and patients, as well as the organization and the community.
  Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Does not write content clearly, logically, or with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes with errors in clarity, logic, grammar, punctuation, or mechanics.	Writes content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes clearly and logically with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics; uses relevant evidence to support a central idea.
  Correctly format citations and references using current APA style.	Does not correctly format citations and references using current APA style.	Uses current APA style to format citations and references but with numerous errors.	Correctly formats citations and references using current APA style with few errors.	Correctly formats citations and references with no errors.

Week 5 Course Project: Adidas

As you’ve learned this week, the control process is essential to the achievement of goals. It allows a business to track their progress, make adjustments, and stay on schedule for what they’re trying to achieve. Your chosen goal from the strategic management project needs these same types of controls. This course project assignment will task you with creating a detailed control process for that goal. Think through all of the departments that might be involved in the completion of the goals and how they’ll need to be tracked. The course content from this week can be very useful in providing details on strategies and ideas for control processes. Some additional research will also prove useful. This assignment should be at least two pages in length and complete the following:

• Identify four separate strategies that you will use to control your strategic goal.
• For each strategy:
  • Identify which aspect or metric of the goal they’re controlling.
  • Explain the reasoning and value behind the control choice.
  • Identify the control as feed forward, concurrent, or feedback.

As an example, if my goal is to “decrease the amount of defective parts made on my assembly line by 5%”, I could control it through regular maintenance checks (feed forward), thorough employee training on the machines (feed forward), and a software system that monitors production while it’s happening and can print off detailed reports after work is completed (concurrent and feedback). You will need to go into much more detail on the structure, process, and purpose of your control methods, but this should give you a good idea of how to complete this assignment. Really think through how you’ll keep up to speed with company progress on your strategic management goal.

Primary task response write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your

thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future

discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use

examples to reinforce your ideas:

The CEO asked you to have lunch
with him and explain exactly how you, in your role, could help the firm
achieve a competitive advantage through improved supply chain
management. He asked you to discuss the following specific points with
him:

• What supply chain management refers to and how it might
  differ between service type businesses and product type businesses, and
  between retail and manufacturing type businesses.
• How you would assess whether a firm has an effective versus ineffective supply chain?Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board
  area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with
  your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for
  future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use
  examples to reinforce your ideas: The CEO has done quite a bit
  of reading in some of the major quality improvement programs that are
  available to both the company and to its vendor base. He asked you to
  describe how a company would go about picking one that would work best
  for it. He specifically asked the following questions:
• What criteria should be used?
• How would you gather information about each kind of program?
• How you would monitor whether the implementation was a success?
• Why
  do you think there have been a number of these major quality
  improvement programs over time; in other words, why hasn’t one been
  accepted as the ideal one?