The Professional Portfolio in Occupational Therapy or Financial Accounting

The Professional Portfolio in Occupational Therapy: Development/Use Throughout Your Career

Author: Janet Nagayda

Developing a portfolio is an excellent way to communicate your personal skills that are integral towards success in a specific profession. As an artist uses a portfolio to showcase their talents, it is essential for each student to document their achievements and plan professional growth.

Professional Portfolio: Career Development and Continuing Competence in Occupational Therapy is an excellent reference that everyone in the field of occupational therapy will need to have in their hands in order to create a visual representation of their knowledge, expertise, and clinical experiences.

Janet Nagayda, Sarah Schindehette, and Jaclyn Richardson designed this resource as a template for creating a portfolio that the occupational therapy profession will value. Included are specific forms necessary for each step in the portfolio stage as well as examples of completed forms to answer questions that may arise when creating your own portfolio.

There is also instructions and tips inside for creating a pitch book, which can be an effective way to provide a highly focused profile of your skills and abilities. Practical advice is given on how to collect and evaluate what information to include, how to incorporate the pitch book into the portfolio, and how to tailor it to meet the needs of a prospective employer, patient, or special project.

The authors also provide an overview of the occupational therapy profession and the range of services offered. For students, this is done to stretch their vision and motivate them to take advantage of opportunities and experiences previously not considered. For educators and other allied health personnel, thisoverview serves as a helpful presentation of what occupational therapy is and the role of the occupational therapy professional.

Let Professional Portfolio guide you to clinical achievements and a fulfilling career.

With the help of Professional Portfolio, you can:

• Prepare for a job interview.
• Create a visual representation of your skills.
• Define professional goals.
• Plan a career path.
• Prepare for the recertification process.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Occupational therapy defined	3
Ch. 2	Portfolios and pitch books	7
Ch. 3	The portfolio system	21
Ch. 4	The portfolio process	25
Ch. 5	Planning	47
Ch. 6	Overcoming procrastination	57
Ch. 7	Values, missions, and goals	73
Ch. 8	Education	87
Ch. 9	Professional development	103
Ch. 10	Professional skills	117
Ch. 11	Professional presentations and publications	135
Ch. 12	Service	149
Ch. 13	Expressions of support	161
Ch. 14	Personal	171
Ch. 15	Create your own	183
Ch. 16	Thinking critically	197
Ch. 17	Continuing development	201

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Financial Accounting: The Impact on Decision Makers

Author: Gary A Porter

Porter and Norton's real-world approach in FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: THE IMPACT ON DECISION MAKERS, Sixth Edition, gives you an up-close perspective on how accounting truly affects businesses today. You will explore an appropriate "focus company" with each chapter, applying accounting principles in the context of that company's specific financial information and business strategy, giving you the real-world experience with financial data you need to succeed in business. Further, Porter and Norton's student-friendly, step-by-step decision framework guides you through a 6-step process on how to effectively use financial information early in the course, laying a stronger foundation for the more complex concepts to follow. FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: THE IMPACT ON DECISION MAKERS, Sixth Edition, goes beyond typical texts that drill students on the numbers and procedures to address additional important issues, such as ethical dilemmas in business decisions and alternate terms you may encounter in the business world.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Introduction to Financial Mrnagement	1
Ch. 1	An Overview of Financial Management	3
Ch. 2	Analysis of Financial Statements	33
	Appendix 2A: Statement of Cash Flows	82
Ch. 3	The Financial Environment: Markets, Institutions, Interest Rates, and Taxes	87
Pt. II	Fundamental Concept in Financial Management	143
Ch. 4	Risk and Rates of Return	145
	Appendix 4A: Calculating Beta Coefficients	187
Ch. 5	Time Value of Money	193
	Appendix 5A: Continuous Compounding and Discounting	239
Ch. 6	Bond and Stock Valuation	241
Pt. III	Strategic Long-Term Investment Decisions: Capital Budgeting	295
Ch. 7	The Cost of Capital	297
Ch. 8	The Basics of Capital Budgeting	337
Ch. 9	Cash Flow Estimation ad Other Topics in Capital Budgeting	375
	Appendix 9A: Depreciation	400
Ch. 10	Risk Analysis and the Optimal Capital Budget	405
	Appendix 10A: Capital Rationing	438
Pt. IV	Strategic Long-Term Financing Decisions	443
Ch. 11	Capital Structure and Leverage	445
Ch. 12	Dividend Policy	495
Ch. 13	Common Stock and the Investment Banking Process	531
Ch. 14	Long-Term Debt	567
	Appendix 14A: Bankruptcy and Reorganization	603
	Appendix 14B: Refunding Operations	611
Ch. 15	Hybrid Finacing: Preferred Stock, Leasing, and Options	619
Pt. V	Financial Planning and Working Capital Management	661
Ch. 16	Finacial Forecasting	663
Ch. 17	Working Capital Policy and Short-Term Credit	697
	Appendix 17A: Secured Short-Term Financing	744
Ch. 18	Cash and Marketable Securities	753
Ch. 19	Accounts Receivable and Inventory	791
Pt. VI	Integrated Topics in Financial Management	837
Ch. 20	Mergers, Divestitures, Holding Companies, and LBOs	839
Ch. 21	Multinational Finacial Maagement	873
	Appendix A: Mathematical Tables	A-1
	Appendix B: Solutions to Self-Test Problems	B-1
	Appendix C: Answers to End-of-Chapter Problems	C-1
	Appendix D: Selected Equations and Data	D-1