The University of Toledo

SHBE 5001: Healthcare Finance

The course examines, from a healthcare perspective, basic finance topics including financial markets and institutions, financial statements and their time value of money, risk and return, and stock and bond valuation. It explains how to manage cash flows and working capital and discuss preparing budgets and statements for business planning.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the basic tool, functions, and objectives of finance and financial management, including risk and return
• Perform basic analysis of financial statements using ratio analysis
• Calculate the time value of money and how it is used to invest in projects
• Manage cash flows and working capital
• Make basic investment decisions in stocks and bonds

Topics:

• Reading financial statements including the balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
• Analyzing financial statements
• Time value of money
• Investing in bonds
• Investing in stocks
• Risk and return in investing
• Investing capital into the business
• Working capital management and cash flows