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Healthcare Financial Modeling With Excel

BUSA-40992

Students must have an intermediate understanding of Microsoft Excel.

This course will cover key concepts of financial modeling, including the purpose, inputs, design, and interpretation of core models, particularly as they relate to the healthcare industry. Heavy emphasis will be placed on understanding spreadsheet concepts, the interactive nature of modelling, scenario planning, and forecasting best practices.

Microsoft Excel will be utilized for model development and students will explore the software tool’s primary financial functions and capabilities.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, students will

  • Obtain a broad understanding of Excel’s capabilities as they relate to financial analysis, modeling, and predictive analytics
  • Utilize key formulas, shortcuts, commands, formatting, and mathematical principles in Excel
  • Build financial models including a 3-statement-model, discounted cash flow, capital and operating budgets, and staffing models
  • Develop the skills to create educated projections using sensitivity analyses
  • Interpret materials for deliverable and presentation purposes
Prerequisites
Introductory education in financial and accounting principles is required, preferably with some understanding of healthcare environments. In particular, students should have experience reviewing and analyzing accounting statements (income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flow) and breakeven analyses.


Format: This course is offered in an online asynchronous format. There are no set meeting times, however, students follow a weekly schedule and there will be deadlines to meet in terms of course requirements. This course cannot be completed at an accelerated rate. UCSD Extended Studies operates in Pacific Standard Time and therefore any deadline is considered 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. 

Course Information

Online
2.00 units
$515.00

Course sessions

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Section ID:

190737

Class type:

Online Asynchronous.

This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

Textbooks:

Gapenski's Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management 7th
by K. Reiter, P. Song

ISBN / ASIN: 9781640551862

You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

Policies:

  • No refunds after: 8/5/2025

Schedule:

No information available at this time.
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Instructor: Nicole Cooney

Nicole Cooney
Nicole Cooney has thirteen years of Healthcare Finance, Expense Management, and Financial Education experience. She began her healthcare career as a management consultant and has worked across the United States in various hospital settings: acute care, critical access, teaching, and non-teaching. She is currently working as a Senior Manager in Clinical Business Operations at a district health system in Southern California and has been in her position for ten years. Her prior roles in the industry were as an analyst and associate at Huron Consulting Group first as a labor consultant and then as a generalist working on projects for labor and non-labor expense management as well as revenue enhancement strategies.
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