Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management, Third Edition

  • 12h 23m
  • Louis C. Gapenski
  • Health Administration Press
  • 2004

Like its predecessors, this text teaches students the fundamental concepts of healthcare finance, including both financial management and accounting. The book was developed to be used in clinical and health services administration programs, in which students are primarily trained for a career in a provider organization.

This third edition has been thoroughly updated and at the same time judiciously trimmed to produce a very focused text. New to this third edition are sections on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the impact of cost structure on risk, a revised approach to variance analysis, and the revenue cycle.

About the Author

Louis C. Gapenski, Ph.D., is a professor in both health services administration and finance at the University of Florida. He received a B.S. degree from the Virginia Military Institute; a M.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; and M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Florida, the latter two in finance. In addition to teaching at the University of Florida, he was on the national faculty of the University of Wisconsin’s Program in Administrative Medicine and has taught in programs at numerous other universities.

Dr. Gapenski is the author or coauthor of over twenty textbooks on corporate and healthcare finance. His books are used worldwide, with Canadian and international editions as well as translations into Russian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. In addition, he has published over 40 journal articles related to corporate and healthcare finance and has authored a self-study program in healthcare finance for the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Dr. Gapenski is a member of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Medical Group Management Association, and the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He has acted as academic advisor, chaired sessions, and presented papers at numerous national meetings. Additionally, Dr. Gapenski has been an editorial board member and reviewer for many academic and professional journals.

In this Book

  • Introduction to Healthcare Finance
  • The Financial Environment
  • Financial Accounting Basics and the Income Statement
  • The Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows
  • Managerial Accounting Basics, Cost Behavior, and Profit Analysis
  • Cost Allocation
  • Pricing And Service Decisions
  • Planning And Budgeting
  • Time Value Analysis
  • Financial Risk and Required Return
  • Long-Term Debt Financing
  • Equity Financing
  • Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital
  • The Basics of Capital Budgeting
  • Project Risk Assessment and Incorporation
  • Current Asset Management and Financing
  • Analyzing Financial Performance
  • Lease Financing and Business Valuation
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