Accounting Handbook for Medical Practices

Hardcover: 358 pages
ISBN 0471370096
Wiley / Jossey-Bass
April 2000
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Physicians and their medical practices today face innumerable problems and challenges in analyzing current market changes in the medical field.

This Accounting Handbook for Medical Practices gives physicians, practice managers and consultants a valuable, usable, and readable journey through the proper processes of financial accounting and related issues.

Sample charts, accounting formulas, and informative case studies enhance each chapter. This book tells you what inefficiencies currently cost the most for physicians and their medical practices. In addition to providing you with financial analysis charts, you will find in these pages:

General rules for accounting
Detailed outlines of financial statements
Audit standards
Operating expense analyses
Special medical practice issues
Case studies
Cost-accounting examples
Internal control relating to medical practices
Tax issues

Do you understand and have the skills and knowledge to make advantageous decisions related to the increasingly complex situations in which you find yourself?

View an excerpt of this book. The Accounting Handbook for Medical Practices is a must-have for:

physicians and practice managers
business office managers
CFOs, CPAs and accountants
physician practice management companies
hospital personnel
medical practice administrators
management consultants, and
a range of others involved in related issues.

RHONDA W. SIDES, CPA, is Director, Nashville Physician Services, with Home CPA Group in Nashville, Tennessee. She specializes in practice valuations, cost accounting, operational assessments, and financial feasibility issues related to group and integrated delivery system development. Ms. Sides lectures nationally for health care and financial organizations, including Southern Medical Association, and is actively sought for her ability to combine the practicality of accounting with the needs of health care practice management. She is a licensed CPA in Georgia and Tennessee and is a member of the Georgia and Tennessee Societies of CPAs, the American Institute of CPAs, and the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Ms. Sides is a candidate member of the American Society of Appraisers. She coauthored Valuation of a Medical Practice, also published by Wiley, and she is an adjunct professor at Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee.

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