Essentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations (2nd Edition)
Essentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations, Second Edition is a comprehensive text that applies the tool and techniques of cost accounting to the health services field. It is an essential tools for all professionals who need to deal with the challenges of managing health facilities in a difficult economic environment. The new edition has an increased emphasis on managed care as well as a new computer-based component.
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Contents: COST ACCOUNTING FOUNDATIONS • Introduction to Cost Accounting • Cost Definitions • Product Costing • Cost Allocation • Costing for Nonroutine Decisions • Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis • COST ACCOUNTING INFORMATION FOR PLANNING AND CONTROL • Predicting Future Costs • Budgeting • Flexible Budgeting and Variance Analysis • Management Control • ADDITIONAL COST ACCOUNTING TOOLS TO AID IN DECISION MAKING • Cost Accounting Ratios • Measuring Productivity • Inventory • Dealing with Uncertainty • Information Systems for Costing • Performance Evaluation and Incentive Compensation • COST ACCOUNTING FOR THE YEAR 2000 AND BEYOND • New Approaches to Cost Accounting • Total Cost Management: Measuring the Costs of Quality • Summary and Issues for the Future Robert A. McLean This book is a revision of the successful first edition. It presents the major topics of cost-accounting as they are, or should be, practiced in healthcare organizations. The purpose is to offer a unified treatment of material that is available only in non-health related texts or scattered throughout the journals of health services administration. The authors intend that the book be used by practicing healthcare managers and by students in university-based programs in health administration. Both audiences will find the text useful and well written. The book covers traditional cost accounting topics, including product costing, cost allocation, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, management control, information systems, and total-cost management. Although the book itself is very traditional, readers have access to cases and problems on a web-site maintained by the author. This is an excellent book by highly competent authors. Used in conjunction with the companion book, it allows the non-accountant reader to develop the necessary expertise to perform and understand basic cost-accounting.
Contents: COST ACCOUNTING FOUNDATIONS 1.Introduction to Cost Accounting 2.Cost Definitions 3.Product Costing 4.Cost Allocation 5.Costing for Nonroutine Decisions 6.Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis 7.COST ACCOUNTING INFORMATION FOR PLANNING AND CONTROL 8.Predicting Future Costs 9.Budgeting 10.Flexible Budgeting and Variance Analysis 11.Management Control 12.ADDITIONAL COST ACCOUNTING TOOLS TO AID IN DECISION MAKING 13.Cost Accounting Ratios 14.Measuring Productivity 15.Inventory 16.Dealing with Uncertainty 17.Information Systems for Costing 18.Performance Evaluation and Incentive Compensation 19.COST ACCOUNTING FOR THE YEAR 2000 AND BEYOND 20.New Approaches to Cost Accounting 21.Total Cost Management: Measuring the Costs of Quality 22.Summary and Issues for the Future
