Management Accounting for Health Care Organizations or Financial Engineering and Computation

Management Accounting for Health Care Organizations: Tools and Techniques for Decision Support

Author: Robert Hankins

The authors draw on their years of teaching and consulting experience to produce a unique text that combines activity-based management approaches with a solid foundation of basic management accounting concepts.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Authors
1	Accounting and Management	3
2	Management Accounting and Internal Decision Making	19
3	Perspectives on Costs	35
4	Introduction to Costing	59
5	Formalizing the Analysis of Activities and Costs	79
6	Organization Structure and Costing	115
7	Aggregating Activity Costs	137
8	Determining Activity Structures and Cost Drivers	159
9	Planning, Designing, and Implementing an ABC System	181
10	Traditional Costing to Support Financial Accounting	205
11	Cost Prediction	225
12	Budgets, Budgeting, and Control	249
13	Cost-Variance Analysis	279
14	Classical Cost-Based Decision Models	303
15	Performance Measures	331
16	Management Accounting Reports	361
17	Summary and a Look to the Future	383
	Glossary	389
	Acronyms	403
App. A	A Review of Financial Accounting Concepts	405
App. B	Basic Concepts in Statistical Analysis	427
	Index	451

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Financial Engineering and Computation: Principles, Mathematics, Algorithms

Author: Yuh Dauh Lyuu

Nowadays students and professionals intending to work in any area of finance must master not only advanced concepts and mathematical models but also learn how to implement these models computationally. This comprehensive text combines the theory and mathematics behind financial engineering with an emphasis on computation, in keeping with the way financial engineering is practiced in today's capital markets. Unlike most books on investments, financial engineering, or derivative securities, the book starts from very basic ideas in finance and gradually builds up the theory. It offers a thorough grounding in the subject for MBAs in finance, students of engineering and sciences who are pursuing a career in finance, researchers in computational finance, system analysts, and financial engineers. Along with the theory, the author presents numerous algorithms for pricing, risk management, and portfolio management. The emphasis is on pricing financial and derivative securities: bonds, options, futures, forwards, interest rate derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, bonds with embedded options, and more. Each instrument is treated in a short, self-contained chapter for ready reference use. Many of these algorithms are coded in Java as programs for the Web, available from the book's home page (csie.ntu.edu/~lyuu/Capitals/capitals.htm)

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Lyuu (National Taiwan U.), writing mainly for students of engineering and natural sciences who want to study quantitative finance for academic or professional reasons, presents an interdisciplinary look at financial engineering that attempts to cover investment theory, financial mathematics, and computer science evenly. Assuming no background in finance, Lyuu presents numerical techniques algorithmically and explains the underlying financial theory. Numerous exercises are presented and are intended by the author to be an integral part of the text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)