Practical Budgeting for Health Care: A Concise Guide: A Concise Guide

By Thomas K Ross and Thomas K. Ross

With the growing importance of budgeting and budget analysis in today's outcome-value oriented healthcare environment, there is an ever-increasing need to provide today's healthcare students with budgeting skills they need to be successful. While most healthcare finance texts include a chapter on budgeting, this coverage is often insufficient to adequately prepare them, as future financial managers, for the demands of upper management. A great supplement to a wide range of finance, economics, and accounting courses across the health disciplines, Practical Budgeting for Health Care: A Concise Guide covers the full scope of budgeting and budget analysis-from incremental budgeting, forecasting, and flexible budgeting, to variance analysis, capital budgeting, and more-providing students with the information and skills they'll need to budget effectively. Key Features - Includes step-by-step instructions on constructing budgets, focusing on incremental and flexible budgeting, the two most commonly-used systems. - Provides an in-depth discussion of program, zero-base, and activity-based budgets. - Offers a host of Excel-based exercises that actively engage students by encouraging them to read, calculate, write, and reflect as they build and analyze budgets. - Brings content to life with mini-case studies that illustrate the story-telling that lives behind the numbers. - Provides an affordable way ensure that the topic of budgeting receives proper attention and student mastery in a time- and cost-efficient way - Includes Navigate 2 eBook Access with each new print copy enabling students to read your digital textbook online or offline, on computers, tablets, and mobile devices.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1284196186
• ISBN13: 9781284196184
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"