Description
(Principles of Financial Management for Healthcare)
Healthcare financial management draws heavily from financial accounting, managerial accounting, finance and economics. This course specifically focuses on learning and applying key financial and managerial accounting tools and concepts to healthcare problems. It provides a broad introduction to key concepts, issues, tools and vocabulary useful both for policy makers and administrators. Topics include: healthcare financial statements, recording transactions, financial statement analysis, full costing, differential costing, budgeting, and responsibility accounting. The course uses a number of cases and focuses upon both analytics and communications skills.