Please read the following case study and respond accordingly:

Sue is a 72 year-old woman who has recently been widowed. She and her husband were inseparable. However, there were times when Sue’s family questioned whether Sue’s husband might have been abusive (emotionally but not physically) as he was an alcoholic for 30 years, the entirety of their marriage. Sue has not been responding to her friends’ requests to go out to dinner, and she hasn’t returned any phone calls. In fact, Sue has become more reclusive now that her husband has passed away. Fifteen years ago, Sue was taking medication for her anxiety but, for the most part, had weaned herself off the medication after a bad fight with her husband.

Sue’s friends are becoming worried about her. They think she is depressed, or worse yet, overmedicating herself. If she could take herself off of them cold turkey, she could decide to go back on them again, they say.

What are your reactions? What do you need to know in order to make an assessment of the situation?

The goal of public organizations is to provide public services. This is done through expenditures ranging from salary for law enforcement personal to maintenance of public parks. Governments provide a wide range of public goods and often there is more demand for services than revenue to pay for those services. Determining annual expenditures is one of the primary functions of any governing body and trade-off typically have to be made.

In this assignment, you will review the expenditure priorities of the city or county government in which you live. Next, you will make recommendation of how to reduce future year expenditures when faced with a revenue short-fall. Finally, you will offer strategies on how to increase funding for a need you have identified in your community.

Be sure to first review your readings from this week and prior weeks that will help support this assignment and then research additional resources to assist in your evaluation. For example, it is helpful to examine available data and other public documents for the city or county. These resources are useful and should be incorporated into your paper, but remember that those resources do not count as the needed three scholarly articles (peer-reviewed, academic articles and texts). Also be sure to incorporate the Mikesell text to support your analysis.

To complete:

Write a 6- to 8-page paper (not including title page and reference page) that addresses the following:

• Introduction: Describe your local city or county entity. This does not need to be extensive as you will likely be using the same entity as in the Week 5 and Week 7 assignments.
• Expenditure Drivers: Identify the 3 departments which get the most general fund resources. What inputs to the production process are the primary drivers of the budget? In other words, what expenditure categories are most important in the total spending by each of the departments? Assess if the expenditures support the stated mission of the government and the needs of the community. (2 pages).
• Recommendations for Reducing Expenditures: Consider how the city or county selected should adjust expenditures if faced with a revenue shortfall. If the government was faced with a 2% reduction in general fund resources in the next fiscal year, what would the dollar amount of the needed expenditure reductions be assuming there was no other offsetting revenue? Based on your review of the budget, what are 3 specific expenditure reductions you would recommend to close at least half of this shortfall? In your recommendation, describe what considerations you used in making these recommendations. They could include strategies from the Mikesell text or academic literature about how other governments prioritize expenditures. (2 – 2 ½ pages)
• Recommendations for Funding New Needs: Find a documented unmet need in your city or county that would be appropriate for the local government to address. This documentation can come from government documents or local news media. Justify why the city or county government should provide funding to address this need. As part of your analysis, provide the community benefits of funding such a need as well as specific recommendation on how the need should be funded. This can be through reduction in other expenditures, increases in revenue sources, or a combination of both. (2 pages)
• Conclusion: In your conclusion, assess the challenge of determining how to best allocate expenditures to serve the needs of the community given limited resources.

Use proper APA formatting and include the following:

• A title page and running head
• An introduction that states the purpose of the paper
• Level 1 headings to define each part (bullet) of the paper
• A conclusion to synthesize the entire paper
• The learning resources need to be cited
• A minimum of three additional scholarly sources to support your paper
• In-text citations as appropriate
• A reference list

References

Mikesell, J. L. (2014). Fiscal administration: Analysis and applications for the public sector (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth.

• Chapter 4, “State and Local Budgets” (pp. 152–173)
• Chapter 5, “Budget Methods and Practices” (pp. 178-218)

Friedman, M. (n.d.). The inflation calculator. Retrieved from http://www.westegg.com/inflation

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I have 3 business finance homework assignments I need help with, it consist of the following which covers 3 chapters. The chapters I need help with are 16, 17, and 18 each assignment has 5 questions with unlimited attempts.

The capital markets, both domestic and foreign, are made up of securities that have a life of one year or longer.

Security markets are considered to be efficient when prices adjust rapidly to new information.

Analyzing long-term debt requires consideration of the collateral pledged, a method of repayment, and other key factors.

When a firm fails to meet its financial obligations, it may be subject to bankruptcy.

Common stockholders are the owners of the corporation.

Preferred stock is an intermediate type of security that falls somewhere between debt and common stock.

The board of directors and corporate management must decide what to do with the firm’s annual earnings.

Stock dividends and stock splits provide common stockholders with new shares.

In this assignment, you will review the case study on AMREF found in Chapter 4 of your textbook, the first case study in the section “Involving Communities in Their Health.”

In approximately two pages, your paper should address the following:

1. What elements of broad strategic thinking do you see demonstrated?
2. What aspects of social development are addressed?
3. What evidence of healthy public policy do you see?
4. Do you see evidence of systems development for health or social policy and related programming?
5. What information stood out most to you from this case study that you might be able to apply in your local community?

Instructions:

• Write a 2- to 3-page paper of about 1,500 words, not including the title and reference pages, which are required.
• The paper must be formatted correctly using APA style. Remember, all research material used in your paper must be paraphrased and include an in-text citation.
• Your paper must be properly cited and formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.
• This is an individual paper; however, you should reflect on our Discussion Forums and incorporate ideas from there, as appropriate.
• Be sure you utilize your text appropriately as a reference and cite at least one other credible external reference such as a website or journal article to support your proposed resolution of the case.
• Your external sources can be trade publications, government information, newspaper articles, or scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these sources.

This final assignment is a research paper detailing how your country of study( Sweden) is confronting or might confront a health issue based on the background information on your country presented in your country profiles. (The challenge may be one of the six presented( Listed at the end of this question) in the last module or one that has emerged in your country research.) In other words, your paper must indicate how conditions in your country of study influence the course of a specific health challenge. If your country is Yemen and the challenge you select is AIDS, your task is to show how the environment, population, social, economic, ect. conditions might influence the course of the disease. (45 points)

This paper must also include a section on global impact and recognition of the interconnectedness of mankind. In other words, consider what the world might learn from the handling of the issue/challenge (you selected) in your country. (10 points)

Long Term Global Health Issues

Over population, Women’s health and Water resources

Emerging Global Health Issues

Disease, tobacco and terrorism