Capital Planning and Financing
This course provides basic information about forms of long-term debt can be restructured, gives examples of how to calculate present value, and provides information on how capital and operating leases work and which criteria credit agencies use to assess an organization's creditworthiness. This is one course with one assessment.
Estimated course completion time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
Credit
Contact Hours:2.0
Description
- Provide basic information about forms of long-term debt available to hospitals and how much an organization can and should borrow
- Explain the nature of the covenents, or legal obligations, placed on the borrower of healthcare bond issues
- Discuss how debts were restructured in the past
- Describe how to put together a financing team
- Explain the discounted cash flow method of quantifying the value of capital assets to be acquired
- Give examples of how to calculate present value
- Describe replacement cost and market comparision approaches to making capital investment decisions
- Describe the two types of equity financing
- List the benefits and risks associated with joint venture business relationships
- Explain how capital and operating leases work and which criteria credit agencies use to assess an organization's creditworthiness