Sentences with phrase «accounting quality measures»

All the more, pay attention to balance sheets, revenue recognition policies, and other accounting quality measures.

Not exact matches

Satisfaction is measured in seven factors: network quality; cost of service; account management; offerings and promotions; customer service; handset; and sales process.

a) Quality of Earnings measures how reported accounting income compares to the economic earnings of the stocks in the sector / industry.

Moreover, if account is taken of quality change inflation measures would have to be further reduced.

a) Quality of Earnings measures how reported accounting income compares to the economic earnings of the stocks in the fund.

However, in analyses that accounted for important patient characteristics such as age, sex, comorbidities, and the reason for hospitalization, the quality of care of the discharging hospital and SNF facility characteristics, outcomes did not vary meaningfully across SNFs that differed in staffing ratings or their performance on clinical measures related to pain or delirium.

(«Quality Adjusted Life Years» is a commonly used measure of disease burden that accounts for both the amount of time lived and the quality of a person's health during thoseQuality Adjusted Life Years» is a commonly used measure of disease burden that accounts for both the amount of time lived and the quality of a person's health during thosequality of a person's health during those years.

Apart from quality and effectiveness, our main two measuring sticks, we have taken other criteria into account, too.

Second, wage - based measures of quality suggest that the wages of teachers relative to those of other workers have fallen considerably, even after accounting for other factors that may not be related to quality.

Measuring homework by the time spent doing it is an imprecise and inadequate measure that does not take into account the quality of the work or the ability of the student or, increasingly importantly, student access to technology;

While quantitative input measures show little impact, several measures of institutional structures and of the quality of the teaching force can account for significant portions of the immense international differences in the level and equity of student achievement.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

The potential for these focused improvement plans to make a difference in the quality of student learning is highly dependent on the degree to which local educators are able to align local curriculum, teaching, and assessment practices with the external measures against which they are being held to account.

One of the commitments that Washington — and every State that received ESEA flexibility — made was to put in place teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that take into account information on student learning growth based on high - quality college - and career - ready (CCR) State assessments as a significant factor in determining teacher and principal performance levels, along with other measures of professional practice such as classroom observations.

And yet the «coasting» measure adopted by the government will not identify the schools in greatest danger of coasting — those with socially advantaged pupil intakes who achieve outwardly good GCSE and A level grades, but not anything like good enough when the quality of their intake is taken into account.

A recent study found that initial teacher quality (as measured by student progress in the teacher's first year of practice) accounted for less than 5 % of the variation in teacher quality five years later.

The 2013 GAO report concluded that the program's administrator has continually failed to ensure the program operated with basic accountability measures and quality controls and even failed to maintain adequate records on its own financial accounting.

No matter how you mix it, it's better to go with Value - Added, student surveys, or both: As Dropout Nation noted last year, the accuracy of classroom observations is so low that even in a multiple measures approach to evaluation in which value - added data and student surveys account for the overwhelming majority of the data culled from the model (72.9 percent, and 17.2 percent of the evaluation in one case), the classroom observations are of such low quality that they bring down the accuracy of the overall performance review.

The 2016 edition of Education Week's Quality Counts report — Called to Account: New Directions in School Accountability - released January 2016 - examined the role the most recent state and federal strategies have in helping schools meet academic standards as well as role these strategies have in implementing accountability measures:

There's no accounting for taste, and if books like «50 Shades of Sloppy Writing» can reach iconic status and make a gazillion dollars, then popularity is by no means a measure of quality.

In Table 4, we divide the 200 highest yielding equities from Table 1 into two groups: the 100 equities with the highest accounting quality (as measured by NOA), and the remaining 100.

The book offers two measures of accounting quality, the Q - score and the S - score.

It also aims for companies that have reasonable earnings quality, reviewing a number of accounting summary measures that tend to correlate with good stock performance.

I take all of the investment ideas that I have gathered up since my last portfolio pruning, and rate them on valuation, momentum, and accounting quality to arrive at a composite measure of their overall desirability.

We used three measures to capture the pertinent information: return on equity (ROE) to reflect growth and profitability; the debt coverage ratio to represent the likelihood of default; and the accruals - to - average - total - assets measure defined by Sloan (1996) to quantify possible accounting red flags.12 To arrive at company - specific quality measures, we used the simple arithmetic average of each stock's percentile rank for these three variables.

We measure relevance by taking into account factors like a property's location, its review scores, the popularity of the property (measured by how many travelers on our sites make bookings at that property), the quality of the content provided by the property, and the competitiveness of the property's rates and availability, all relative to other properties meeting your chosen search criteria.

It was an opinion piece (as is this one) taking into account the quality of titles released on both formats and measuring them against the hype, promises and standards emanating from the media, PR slogans and fan expectations.

The NSRDB accounts for any recent climate changes and provides more accurate values of solar radiation due to a better model for estimating values (more than 90 percent of the solar radiation data in both data bases are modeled), more measured data including direct normal radiation, improved instrument calibration methods, and rigorous procedures for assessing quality of data.

This report summarizes the ecoBUDGET management system in which natural resources and environmental quality are measured and accounted for in a budget.

And what they're doing is filling that gap, the social and environmental version of generally accepted accounting principles, so that we have a standard measuring stick that we can use to assess the social and environmental quality, along with the financial quality, of a business.

Focus on achieving goals, implementing cost - effective accounting measures and ensuring accuracy through an ongoing commitment to quality.

• Arbitrate software application installation and upgrading processes, system inspection and troubleshooting procedures • Execute network channeling, wireless configuration and connectivity set up • Evaluate existing routing, LAN / WAN, network type and security status and take measures to enhance the same • Collaborate with telecommunications department to ensure delivery of highest quality network services to customers • Coordinate with IP service providers for inter and intranet provision and maintenance • Identify hardware and software threats proactively, initiate maximum protection SOPs for the same and recover systems in case of infection • Facilitate users in creating and maintaining new accounts • Conduct regular analysis and maintenance of voice, video and data communication networks • Carryout problem identification, resolution and general troubleshooting of network related issues • Generate and handle email, data distribution and communication systems • Provide help desk support and perform hardware and software installation and network configuration • Take periodic backup of systems and provide the users with same in case of system collapse • Repair and replace faulty or damaged network cabling as and when required • Facilitate the team in development of new network designs and architecture • Connect user servers with other servers at various workstations using localized internet services • Initiate, develop, implement and enhance network security policies • Track and resolve fault tickets using latest TCP based troubleshoot strategies in minimal time • Determine all aging servers and systems and upgrade the same to latest Operating System versions • Maintain productive business relations and effective communication channels with department coordinator and broadband vendors

Director of Business — Duties & Responsibilities Recruit and train staff of 30 in hospital policies, procedures, best practices, and corporate branding Design and implement staff development, recognition, and disciplinary policies and procedures Oversee admissions, utilization review, PB X, imaging center, billing, collections, and wound center registrations Set and strictly adhere to departmental budgets and schedules Author and present financial reports concerning revenue, expenses, and outstanding collections Identify performance indicators and benchmarks for integration into reporting systems Conduct surveys regarding patient / staff satisfaction, benchmarks, accreditation, and employee benefits Maintain a 99 % patient satisfaction score through attentive and professional standards of care Negotiate contracts and claims with insurance carriers, Medicare, Medicaid, and other payer sources Increase revenue by 30 % through effective contract renegotiation with suppliers, carriers, and other parties Implement policies, procedures, and equipment to cut hospital costs while enhancing patient care Utilize strong management experience to drive operations in an efficient and professional manner Develop and implement billing controls, cash processing measures, lockboxes, and other financial processes Coordinate and oversee internal and external audits ensuring compliance with industry and legal standards Recruit physicians through successful marketing, networking, and other tactics Implement automated Chargemaster financial application (Craneware) and maintain patient accounts Responsible for HCAHPS and the yearly Quality Assurance Plan Appeal claims when appropriate resulting in $ 400,000 reimbursement from PPO insurance over the last year Build and strengthen professional relationship with community leaders, coworkers, and industry figures Consistently promoted for excellence in financial management, team leadership, and dedication to mission Develop working knowledge of hospital operations from patient admission to senior level strategic planning Represent company with poise, integrity, and positivity

Dr Opie's PhD was titled Nursing in the Bush: Occupational Stress in Very Remote Australia and her latest publication from her thesis describes the development and validation of the Remote Area Nursing Stress Scale (RANSS)-- a new self - report instrument designed specifically to measure occupational stress in this context, and which takes the personal quality of «resilience» into account.

It also needs to be taken into account here that the questionnaires used in this study did not measure the level of paternal involvement daughters believed they can reasonably expect from their fathers or how they evaluate the quality of paternal involvement.