Fianace Of HealthCare

Preparing a Business Plan

Assumptions

Types of assumptions required for the financial portion of a business plan typically include answers to the following questions:

Example of Typical Income Statement Assumption Information Requirements:

• What types of revenue?
• How many services will be offered to produce the revenue (by month)?
• How much labor will be required (FTEs)?
• What will the labor cost?
• How many and what type of supplies, drugs, and/or devices will be required to offer the service?
• What will the supplies, drugs, and/or devices cost?
• How much space will be required?
• What will the required space occupancy cost?
• Is special equipment required? If so, how much will it cost?
• Is staff training required to use the special equipment? If so, how much time is required, and what will it cost?

Refer to the course project to add a nuclear cardiac stress lab.

Identify how many of the assumption items listed in the example above can be found in the project worksheets.

Use of Excel is strongly encouraged!