Discussion postings should be written in standard edited English and should follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific in-text citations from this week’s Learning.
Choose one of the following:
1. Consider an organization with which you are familiar. Do you know how it reports its financial condition? How does it compare to another organization of a different size, with a different ownership structure, that provides different services, and/or in a different market?
2. Consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar, review it financial statements and apply the different financial ratios presented in the textbook. What do the different groups of ratios tell you about an organization?s financial condition and position?
3. What is the key difference between financial statement analysis and operating indicator analysis? How are these types of analyses useful to healthcare managers and investors? Consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar and discuss what are some of the problems or challenges inherent in financial statement analysis?
TEXTBOOK INFORMATION
Title: Healthcare Finance
Edition: 6th (2016)
Author: Gapenski
Publisher: Health Administration Press
Book ISBN: 978-1567937411
