This course provides exploration of financial accounting and reporting, financial analysis, managerial and cost accounting, and budgeting in health care. Students will be able to apply financial techniques to the analysis of the health care environment, to improving value in health care services and to organizational decision making.

This course examines legal and ethical issues affecting health care institutions and the management of risk within the organization. The content of the course will include an overview of the legal and regulatory constraints of the health care industry along with practical application of the laws that affect operational decisions within healthcare. Topics include demand, supply, redistribution and the role of the government, risk management, and the ethical implications of current financial practices and economic imperatives. Restricted to online MBA program students.

This course focuses on identifying, measuring, and seeking to improve health care quality, patient satisfaction, cost, and employee engagement. Various models of process/quality improvement will be analyzed to equip the learner to be proactive as a change agent while using strong interprofessional communication skills. Restricted to online MBA program students.

Students apply research and analysis techniques to investigate an issue or solve a problem in an organization including a determination of the return on investment (ROI) of the solution. Experience is gained in defining research problems, designing a project, relating pertinent literature, and in collecting, analyzing, recording, and interpreting data. Restricted to online MBA program students.

A dynamic learning experience focused on topics and skills that are associated with health care leadership and decision making. Students explore health information management, data analysis, and using data to lead change. Restricted to online MBA program students.

Global Finance teaches students important finance concepts like capital budgeting, taxation, fundraising, and investing with a particular focus on how globalization and international trade flows influence the domestic practice of finance. Students will understand currency flows and international loanable funds markets and their impact on exchange rates.

A course, on a special topic in the discipline at the post-baccalaureate or master degree level, offered on the basis of need, interest, or time lines. May be repeated for credit. See registrars office current class schedules Web page for specific semester description.

As part of their academic program, Viterbo University students may choose to participate in a full-time or part-time business-related internship. The goal is to provide students the opportunity to blend academic theory with practice and to explore and gain experience in functional areas they may wish to enter professionally. An internship plan including a timeline, intended outcomes, and assessment requirements must be approved by the students graduate advisor and arranged with the professor advising the internship. Graded CR/NC.

A course, on a special topic in the discipline at the post-baccalaureate or master degree level, offered on the basis of need, interest, or time lines. May be repeated for credit. See registrars office current class schedules Web page for specific semester description.