Financial management for nurse managers and executives / Steven A. Finkler, Cheryl Bland Jones and Christine Tassone Kovner

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The health care environment -- The role of financial management and nurse leadership in health care organizations -- Key issues in applied economics -- Quality, costs, and financing -- Accounting principles -- Analysis of financial statement information -- Cost management -- Determining health care costs and prices -- Costs and other issues related to recruiting and retaining staff -- Strategic management -- Budgeting concepts -- Operating budgets -- Revenue budgeting -- Performance budgeting -- Controlling operating results -- Variance analysis : examples, extensions, and caveats -- Benchmarking, productivity, and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis -- Short-term financial resources -- Long-term financial resources -- Forecasting -- The nurse as entrepreneur -- Nursing and financial management : current issues and future directions.

Designed for financial management courses in graduate level nursing programs and for practicing nurses or nurse entrepreneurs who are seeking a better understanding of financial management, this title covers financial topics all nurse managers need to know and use in their roles as managers