EKS Associates offers a wide range of financial management and related hands-on workshops and courses for health care managers, medical staff and executives.

Funding

The Understanding the Ontario Hospital Cost Distribution Methodology (OCDM) workshop can be tailored to meet the specific needs of:

• Finance
• Health Records/Utilization
• Managers
• Medical Staff
• Administration and Board

Highlights and key issues can be delivered in a one-hour presentation. Detailed presentations usually take 3 hours.

Our Future Directions in Health Care Funding workshop addresses the issues related to proposed rate and volume funding initiatives currently under discussion. The workshop addresses:

• Current and proposed rate factors
• Proposed volume factors
• Proposed funding methodologies

This program is available in conjunction with the OCDM workshop or separately.

For information or to schedule a workshop in your facility.

Budgeting

Our one-day Operating Budget Preparation workshops deal with all aspects of budget development for departmental and program budgeting.

Topics covered include:

• Identification of factors affecting budget preparation
• Setting objectives
• Quantifying Activity/Workload
• Establishing staffing requirements
• Supplies & other expenses budgets
• Validating proposed budgets
• Presenting the budget

For information or to schedule a workshop in your facility.

Our Variance Analysis and Reporting workshops (duration one-day) cover:

• Analysis of operating results
• Volume issues
• Service/unit cost issues
• Productivity issues
• Reporting results and action plans to management

For information or to schedule a workshop in your facility.

The Capital Budgeting workshop addresses:

• Budgeting for capital equipment - new and replacement
• Budgeting for capital renovations
• Elements of a great capital budget
• Building your case
• Payback and other validation
• Presentation – written and verbal

For information or to schedule a workshop in your facility.

Each of the above workshops is available separately or may be offered together as a complete package.

Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Understanding Financial Statements, a low-key, user-friendly, one-day workshop, provides the non-financial manager with an overview of the:

• Balance Sheet
• Statement of Revenue and Expense
• Statement of Cash Flows

The workshop shows how the elements of each of the statements are related and how they can be used for decision-making, planning, etc.