Fundamentals of Healthcare Finance

Book excerpt: This second edition presents a broad overview of healthcare finance focusing on tasks that are essential to the operational management of clinical services, including estimating costs and profits, planning and budgeting, analyzing new equipment purchases, using metrics to monitor operations, and working with financial statements. It includes critical concepts, practical scenarios, self-test questions, industry-practice sidebars, and a running glossary. A section on healthcare reform has been added as well as updated accounting coverage that conforms to the latest AICPA formats and a new student engagement tool. For Your Consideration sidebars present scenarios designed to make students think about current, sometimes controversial, issues. --