Courses Taught by Simone Singh

HMP606: Managerial Accounting for Health Care Administrators

  • Graduate level
  • Executive Masters, Residential and Online MPH
  • This is a second year course for Online students
  • Fall, Winter term(s) for Executive Masters and residential students; Winter term(s) for online MPH students;
  • 3 credit hour(s) for Executive Masters and residential students; 2 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
  • Instructor(s): Simone Singh (Residential/Executive Masters); Simone Singh (Online MPH);
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Advisory Prerequisites: HMP 608 and HMP 660 (residential students only)
  • Description: Concepts and techniques of managerial accounting for generalist health care administrators. Topics covered include full cost measurement, differential cost measurement and analysis, sources of revenue, price setting, budgeting and control, costs and decision-making fund accounting
  • Residential Syllabus for HMP606
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HMP608: Health Care Financial Accounting

  • Graduate level
  • Both Residential and Online MPH
  • This is a second year course for Online students
  • Fall term(s) for residential students; Winter term(s) for online MPH students;
  • 1-2 credit hour(s) for residential students; 2 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
  • Instructor(s): Simone Singh, Matthew Comstock, (Residential); Matthew Comstock (Online MPH);
  • Prerequisites: none
  • Description: This course provides an overview of financial accounting for students interested in health care management and policy. It is designed to serve the needs of both students who have never had a course in financial accounting (for 2 credits) and students who have had an introductory course in financial accounting but without health care applications (for 1 credit).
  • Residential Syllabus for HMP608
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Concentration Competencies that HMP608 Allows Assessment On
Department Program Degree Competency Specific course(s) that allow assessment
HMP MPH Healthcare financial accounting. HMP608

HMP670: Accounting For Healthcare

  • Graduate level
  • Executive Masters
  • Fall term(s) for Executive Masters students;
  • 3 credit hour(s) for Executive Masters students;
  • Instructor(s): Simone Singh (Executive Masters);
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Advisory Prerequisites: HMP 600, HMP 603, HMP 660
  • Description: Become familiar with the key concepts and tools of financial and managerial accounting, which will help you make better decisions in your future career as leaders in healthcare and public health.
  • Learning Objectives: Define the term healthcare finance and discuss the role of finance in healthcare organizations. Describe the nature and function of financial accounting and the principles that underlie the preparation of the financial statements. Explain the purpose and contents of the balance sheet, statement of operations, statement of changes in net assets, and statement of cash flows. Use the notes to complement the information provided in the financial statements. Conduct financial statement and operating indicator analysis to assess the financial condition of a healthcare organization. Describe the difference between financial and managerial accounting Describe common cost classification systems. Apply cost-volume-profit (breakeven) analysis. Apply the direct and the step-down cost allocation method. Estimate the full cost of a healthcare service using ratios of costs to charges (RCCs), relative value units (RVUs), and activity-based costing (ABC). Use cost information to set prices and determine service offerings. Prepare operating budgets, flexible budgets, and conduct variance analysis.
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