Assignment:
-Discuss what must happen between costs and expenditures to allow “break even.” Include in your discussion the concepts of fixed costs, variable costs, and revenue.
-Describe two sources of budget variance and how these sources might be monitored, investigated, and controlled. Identify at least three reasons to investigate a budget variance.
-Define controllable costs for a nursing manager and explain how to manage them.
-There are four common cost determination methods: cost-to-charge ratio (CCR), volume-based measures, per-diem approach, and balanced scorecard and activity based costing. Briefly explain each of these methods.


