Greetings from Barry Hunt, MPA, and his Healthcare Accounting

Students

• Accounting 571, Winter 2012• Accounting for Healthcare Managers• College of Business and Economics• California State University (CSULA) • Los Angeles, California 90032, USA

Our Class Projects

Problem solving via web-based, multidisciplinary teamwork; case studies (of health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, physicians’ offices, government programs); program budgeting; oral presentations to the Board of Directors; forecasting, managing and controlling costs, expenses, and revenues; administrator interviews and career advancement opportunities

Course Content

Assessing and improving healthcare organizations (public, for-profit and non-profit) through best practices of managerial and financial accounting (auditing, pricing, cost allocation) and analytical tools (operating ratios, key performance indicators, dashboards, DuPont-, common size- and trend-analysis) of financial statements (balance sheets, income statements and statements of cash flows)