Essentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations

A textbook that covers the essential of cost accounting from a health care perspective. It covers all of the basic tools of cost accounting common to all industries, using health care examples. It also focuses on costing issues and concepts peculiar to the health care field. Its main theme concerns the generation of useful cost information to aid managers in making decisions. A companion volume, Issues in Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations (0529-7, $34), is structured in parallel and provides a series of articles that focus on critical issues in health care cost accounting. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.