Accounting in Health Services

3.00 credits · Graduate

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the capability to use accounting and control information in a managerial decision making context specifically aimed at the health services sector. To this end, this course is concerned with the construction of accounting information as well as learning how to critically analyze, interpret and use this information. Topics include financial statements, basic principles and practices of accounting, budgeting, variance analysis, using cost and revenue information to make decisions and forecasts, and inventory management.