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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

13368 (v.3) Health Services Financial Management 585

Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 310673 (v.2) HTHM602 Financial Management in Health or any previous version
Syllabus: This unit equips students with the knowledge to improve their financial management skills and learn how to use financial information to make management decisions in a health sector organisation. It provides students with a level of understanding of health services financial management that will enable them to be successful in their day to day activities as a non-financial manager or stakeholder in the health sector. After completing the unit, students will have gained a better understanding of how to assess the financial performance of a health sector organisation, discuss key financial matters, and apply the basic tools and concepts commonly used in financial management.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 069900 Other Health (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1     Y    
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External