Healthcare Finance

Use the balance sheet and statement of income you downloaded for Ascension Health during Week 3. In a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, prepare a vertical analysis of the company for the years 2013 and 2014 and a horizontal analysis from 2013 (base year) to 2014 (subsequent year).

Discuss your findings. Here are a few, but not all, the questions you should consider.

• Is Ascension Health growing? 
• What line items reflected the largest-percentage increases and/or decreases? 
• What is the financial impact these changes have on the company's financial viability currently and in the future? 

 submit your 2–3-page report to the