HSA 525 Week 2 Homework

From Healthcare Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers (homework problems are found in the back of the textbook in the "Examples and Exercises" section.)  

• Assignment Exercise 2-1: Health Systems Flowsheets 
• Assignment Exercise 3-1: Balance Sheet 
• Assignment Exercise 3-2 Balance Sheet 

Assignment Exercise 2-1: Health System Flowsheets

1. Find an information flowsheet from a healthcare organization. It can be from a published source or from an actual organization. 2. Based on this flowsheet, comment on what the structure of the organization's information system appears to be. 3. If you were a manager (at this organization), would you want to change the structure? If so, why? If not, why not?

Assignment Exercise 3-1: Balance Sheet

2. Locate a healthcare-related balance sheet. The source of the balance sheet can be internal (within a healthcare facility of some type) or external (from a published article or from a company's annual report, for example). Write impressions and/or comments about the assets, liabilities, and net worth found on your balance sheet. Would you have preferred more detail in this statement? If so, why?

Assignment Exercise 3-2: Balance Sheet

3. Locate a second healthcare-related balance sheet. Again, the source of the balance sheet can be either internal or external. Compare the balance sheet you acquired for Assignment Exercise 3-1 with the second balance sheet you have now obtained. What is the same? What is different? Which one do you find more informative? Why?