Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: define key terms related to finance, budgets, and accounting in healthcare contexts; examine the role of finance in healthcare organizations, including the role of the CFO and other key players in day-to-day operations; create balance sheets for healthcare organizations; analyze financial statements using ratio analysis and make financial recommendations to health care organizations based off the data;  examine financial regulations impacting healthcare organizations, including non-profit or tax-exempt status; examine the complexities of third-party payments in healthcare organizations; calculate cost shifting and communicate calculations to stakeholders; explain the implications of value-based purchasing on healthcare organizations; use differential cost analysis to calculate profits and losses and make pricing recommendations to healthcare organizations; evaluate the financial status of a healthcare organization and propose recommendations for purchases based on calculations; develop and evaluate strategic plans for healthcare organizations; use regression analysis to develop and evaluate budgets; calculate financial impacts of purchases based on projected costs and revenues; evaluate healthcare reform proposals.