Anindita Roy Bardhan has been sharing her passion for healthcare since 2018, when she brought her Healthcare Accounting course from UT Dallas to McCombs. Learn more about this course and why it’s a valuable addition to the Master in Professional Accounting (MPA) program curriculum.
HOW DOES THIS COURSE DIFFER FROM OTHER ACCOUNTING CLASSES?
This course is unique in the fact that it includes topics related to financial and managerial accounting and finance in a single course. The purpose is to bring facets of the business side of healthcare to students with an interest in healthcare careers.
WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT HEALTHCARE ACCOUNTING?
As I tell my students, hospitals in the U.S. include a majority of not-for-profit entities. Therefore, this course covers accounting and business issues of both not-for-profit and investor-owned/for-profit entities. It is very rare, if at all, to find both aspects being addressed in a single course!
BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS FROM YOUR CLASS?
Students have the opportunity to:
- understand how financial statements reflect the performance of a healthcare entity; » analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats based on financial statement analysis and make recommendations to address them;
- manage working capital using cash budgets and receivables aging;
- make decisions regarding pricing of products and services, make or buy, using breakeven analyses; and
- use net present value concepts to make investment decisions.
We hope you enjoyed learning more about this elective class in the Master in Professional Accounting program at UT Austin! See all of our electives here, and mark your calendar for August 29, 2022 as our traditional MPA Class of 2024 application opens that day!
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