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Health care finance : basic tools for nonfinancial managers
- Title
- Health care finance : basic tools for nonfinancial managers / Judith J. Baker, R.W. Baker.
- Author
- Baker, Judith J.
- Publication
- Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2006], ©2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Baker, R. W.
- Description
- xiv, 315 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers, Second Edition is a clear, practical text for those who need basic financial management knowledge and a better overall understanding of health care finance. Using real-world examples drawn from hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies, this text provides essential "how to" guidance for the nonfinancial manager charged with budgeting, forecasting, and everyday financial management responsibilities. This user-friendly text is a thorough revision."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction to health care finance -- Ch. 2. What does the health care manager need to know? -- Ch. 3. Assets, liabilities, and net worth -- Ch. 4. Revenues (inflow) -- Ch. 5. Expenses (outflow) -- Ch. 6. Cost classifications -- Ch. 7. Cost behavior and break-even analysis -- Ch. 8. Staffing : the manager's responsibility -- Ch. 9. Reporting -- Ch. 10. Financial and operating ratios as performance measures -- Ch. 11. The time value of money -- Ch. 12. Comparative data, forecasts, and benchmarking -- Ch. 13. Budgeting and variance analysis -- Ch. 14. Capital expenditure budgets -- Ch. 15. Business loans and financing costs -- Ch. 16. Owning versus leasing equipment -- Ch. 17. Putting it all together : creating a business plan -- Ch. 18. Case study : metropolis health system -- Ch. 19. Mini-case study 1 : proposal to add a retail pharmacy to a hospital in the metropolis health system -- Ch. 20-A. Mini-case study 2 : changing economic realities in the health care setting : a physician's office teaching cases -- Ch. 20-B. Mini-case study 2 : changing economic realities in the health care setting : a physician's office teaching cases -- Ch. 20-C. Mini-case study 2 : changing economic realities in the health care setting : a physician's office teaching cases -- Ch. 21. Mini-case study 3 : the economic significance of resource misallocation : client flow through the women, infants, and children public health program.
- ISBN
- 0763726605 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2005023424
- OCLC
- ocm61334478
- SCSB-5227544
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries