Assignment: W8A5 Healthcare Budget Request – Ratio Analysis
Financial ratios are often used to show performance of an organization. Ratio analysis provides ways to compare past performance with current performance or to compare to similar organizations. Ratio analysis often considers variable and fixed costs.
Variable and Fixed Costs
Variable cost is an expense that changes with volume, or production. Consider if the cost of performing a service is $100 and you perform 5, the total variable cost is $500 (=$100*5). Yet, if the demand increased, or decreased, the total would change.
Conversely, fixed cost do not change with volume. An example of fixed cost is rent. Although fixed cost may change over time, it is not related to the production number.
Breakeven Analysis
This analysis is based on units of service and tells the level of production needed to cover the costs of production. The break-even point is calculated by dividing the total fixed costs of production by the price of a product per individual unit less the variable costs of production. Remember, Breakeven analysis is based on Units of service, not revenue.
Marginal Profit and Loss
Marginal cost of production is the change in total production cost that comes from making one more unit. Fixed cost do not change with volume, so the fixed costs are spread over more units leading to a decreased fixed cost per unit. Therefore, increasing production decreases the cost. Variable costs do change with volume, so producing more units will add more variable costs.
Assignment: W8A5 Healthcare Budget Request – Ratio Analysis
Complete the Ratio Analysis Worksheets
For this Assignment, you will practice the following financial analyses: Expense Forecasting, Breakeven Analysis, and Marginal Profit and Loss. To do this:
- Review the Learning Resources.
- Complete the 3 Ratio Analysis Workbooks labeled W8A5a, b, c:
- W8A5a Expense Forecasting
- Read and transfer the information (data) provided into the correct cell.
- Enter a formula to create totals.
- Enter a formula to calculate Annualized Amounts.
- Fixed costs are given for the Year to Date (6 months) and you
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