Baker's Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers

Baker's Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers, Sixth Edition is the most practical and applied text for those who need a basic and better understanding of health care financial management. Using actual examples from hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies, this user-friendly text includes practical information for the nonfinancial manager charged with budgeting. With new chapters on using Excel and Lean Six Sigma as well as all new cases that test students' mastery of concepts and tools, the new Sixth Edition is designed to give students an understanding of how healthcare organizations operate, provide them with the skills to analyze financial performance, prepare and manage operating budgets, prepare capital budgets, and improve financial performance.

Key Features:
- New chapter on Using Excel ensures students have understanding this useful financial tool.
- New chapter shows how Lean Six Sigma can be used to improve financial performance.
- New Part VIII offers new case studies (breakeven analysis ratios and operating indicators budgeting etc) that give students the opportunity to apply concepts learned.
- End of chapter problems reinforce chapter concepts.
- Navigate eBook Access (included with the printed text) provides convenient online or offline access to the digital text from a computer, tablet, or mobile device.