Assignment:Zero-Based Budgeting
Read the Zero-Based Budgeting PowerPoint presentation. The Board of Directors of Windsor Memorial Hospital has hired you to be their zero-based budget consultant. Specify how Windsor Memorial Hospital can implement a zero-based budget and provide your recommendations to the Board of Directors of the Hospital. Explain the benefits of implementing your recommendations and justify why you are making these specific recommendations.
Your paper must include an introduction, thesis, and conclusion. Your paper must be 4 to 5 double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize three scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources (excluding the course text) that were published within the last five years. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and provide complete references for each source used on the reference page.
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Required Text
Cleverley, W. O., Song, P. H., & Cleverley, J. O. (2011). Essentials of health care finance (7th ed). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Chapter : Strategic Financial Planning
This chapter focuses on the major concepts involved in strategic financial planning including key financial policy targets, 10 requirements for effective financial planning and the steps involved in developing a financial plan.
Chapter : Management Control Process
This chapter focuses on the concept of management control and how budgeting is used as part of it. Budgeting process and major types of budgets are also described.
Chapter : Financial Mathematics
This chapter discusses the concept of time value of money. Concepts such as future value, present value and annuity are explained.
PowerPoint Presentation
Windsor Regional Hospital: Report of the Executive Committee. (Apr, 2008). Zero Based Budgeting .
This is a report of the 2008 executive committee report for Windsor Regional Hospital.
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LearnScape Simulation
Jones & Bartlet Learning. Healthcare Finance LearnScape [Access Code]. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
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