Management Accounting in Health Care Organizations

Management Accounting in Health Care Organizations
By:"David W. Young"
Published on 2004-01-16 by John Wiley & Sons

Management Accounting in Health Care Organizations offers an introduction to the subject of management accounting and provides a user-oriented approach to the concepts and techniques students need in order to understand management accounting in a health care context. This volume includes the information needed to master the basics of full-cost accounting, differential cost accounting, and responsibility accounting. It describes the uses and limitations of management accounting and the common accounting pitfalls managers face when making routine health care management decisions. This important text is formatted to provide an interactive learning approach. Students prepare answers to problems as they appear throughout each chapter and analyze one or more practice cases at the end of the chapter. Each chapter's practice case is followed by several cases that can be assigned for analysis and discussion in the classroom setting.

This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword accounting.

Handbook of Health Care Accounting and Finance

Handbook of Health Care Accounting and Finance
By:"William O. Cleverley"
Published on 1989 by Jones & Bartlett Learning

More than 1,000 pages in this landmark publication cover areas that are critical to the sound financial management of health care organizations.

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword finance.

Modelling in Health Care Finance

Modelling in Health Care Finance
By:"Michael Cichon"
Published on 1999 by International Labour Organization

This unique book provides a solid understanding of the basics of modeling and assists health care professionals in grasping its uses in creating and implementing informed health care policy. Modelling in Health Care Finance offers the quantitative and analytic tools needed for sound resource allocation and financial governance of health systems. It creates synergies and bridges gaps between quantitative health economics, health financing, and actuarial science while presenting methods for improving the efficiency and lowering the costs of current health systems.A valuable guidebook for health system and health insurance managers alike, this volume traces the foundations of modeling and explains how these very useful and available tools can aid in the design of effective health care policy. In straightforward, non-technical language, the book demystifies the modeling process and provides step-by-step guidance through model construction. From forming health policy goals, identifying options, and analyzing results, to actual implementation, the book demonstrates how managers and policy-makers can make use of models.Written by a team of health care policy experts from the ILO and other contributors, the book also includes a substantial glossary of terms, a section of accessible reference materials, and issue briefs that cover concepts of health economics, mathematics of private health insurance, and basic econometric techniques.

This Book was ranked 28 by Google Books for keyword finance.

Essentials of Health Care Finance

Essentials of Health Care Finance
By:"William O. Cleverley","Paula H. Song","James O. Cleverley"
Published on 2010-10-22 by Jones & Bartlett Learning

Health Sciences & Professions

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword finance.

Accounting Fundamentals for Health Care Management

Accounting Fundamentals for Health Care Management
By:"Steven A. Finkler","David M. Ward","Thad Calabrese"
Published on 2011-11-30 by Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Accounting Fundamentals for Health Care Management is ideal for an introductory course in financial accounting in both undergraduate and graduate programs. This is the first book that focuses on basic accounting in health care management. This essential book contains the vocabulary of and an introduction to the tools and concepts employed by finance officers. It will help anyone assess financial information, ask the appropriate questions, and understand the jargon-laden answers. This book is indispensable for anyone who manages a department and a budget.

This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword accounting.