Session 9 Flashcards
Budgeting
Planning expense and revenue and measuring these values against actual financial results
What do you need to make a budget
Economic cycle (business cycle)
Predictable long term pattern changes in national income.
Cycles of the business cycle
- Expansion
- Prosperity
- Contraction
- Recession
Six steps of budgeting
- Determine the desired financial results
- Analysis of the financial statements
- Normalizing revenue and expenses
- Budgeting revenue
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Determining the desired financial results
Measured by profit (revenue - expenses)
Specify earning percentage to gross revenue (divide profit by revenue)
Analysis of the financial statement
Effective budget requires a thorough understanding of the practice’s financial resource.
Revenue
Expenses:
1. Personnel expenses
2. Variable Expenses/CoGS
3. Occupancy/Facility Expenses
4. Fixed/Administrative Expenses
Normalizing the Revenue and expenses.
Remove any one-time, non-recurring items from the financials used to create the budget
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Budgeting revenue
Projecting the revenue the practice will generate in the following year.
Patient volume - a key driver of revenue growth. Some factors that influence patient volume include:
Fees scheduled
Budgeting expenses
Combining budgeted expense, revenue and marketing adjustments