Essentials of cost accounting for health care organizations /

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Author / Creator:Finkler, Steven A.
Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2007.
Description:xviii, 484 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6643151
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Varying Form of Title:Cost accounting for health care organizations
Other authors / contributors:Ward, David M. (David Marc), 1964-
Baker, Judith J.
ISBN:0763738131
9780763738136
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to cost accounting
  • Cost definitions
  • Product costing
  • Cost allocation
  • Costing for nonroutine decisions
  • Cost-volume-profit analysis
  • Predicting future costs
  • Budgeting
  • Flexible budgeting and variance analysis
  • Management control
  • Cost accounting ratios
  • Measuring productivity
  • Inventory
  • Dealing with uncertainty
  • Information systems for costing
  • Performance evaluation and incentive compensation
  • New approaches to cost accounting
  • Activity-based costing
  • Total cost management : measuring the costs of quality
  • Summary and issues for the future.