Learning path
Healthcare Accounting & Finance Learning Path
In this industry-focused learning path, you’ll build the specialized financial and accounting skills needed to thrive in healthcare — one of the most complex and resilient industries today. If you’re looking to break into healthcare, win more clients, or take your finance career to the next level, this series is for you.
17 courses·44 NASBA CPE
Most courses included. The following courses on this learning path require the Premium planHealthcare Mergers and Acquisitions3.0 CPEHealthcare Taxation & Compliance3.0 CPEHealthcare Fraud Prevention and Detection3.0 CPESee the Premium plan
Why specialize in healthcare.
Three reasons the specialty holds its value through a cycle that thins other practices.
Healthcare organizations need finance professionals who understand their unique landscape.
Healthcare continues to expand, even in economic downturns.
Specialized expertise commands higher salaries and consulting rates.
Your complete learning journey.
All seventeen courses, in the four levels the path is built around. Every course stands on its own and earns its own NASBA CPE — start at the top or go straight to the one you need.
The industry, its regulators, and how a provider gets paid.
Introduction to Healthcare Finance and Accounting
Where the money comes from, and why it is late.
Regulatory Frameworks in Healthcare Accounting
HIPAA, Medicare, Medicaid, and what each one obliges you to report.
Revenue Recognition in Healthcare
ASC 606 against a payer contract that pays a fraction of the charge.
Why Healthcare Providers Don't Get Paid
The denial, traced back to the keystroke that caused it.
Costing, analysis, budgeting and the revenue cycle in practice.
Cost Accounting in Healthcare
What a procedure actually costs, once you allocate honestly.
Financial Statement Analysis in Healthcare
Days in A/R, and the four other numbers a board actually asks about.
Healthcare Budgeting and Forecasting
A budget built on predicted patient volume, not last year plus three.
Healthcare Revenue Cycle Deep Dive
Intake to final payment, one handoff at a time.
Healthcare Bookkeeping: From Charge Capture to Financial Reporting
The close, in an organization that bills before it knows the price.
Deals, risk and tax for senior finance roles.
Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions
Diligence on a target whose receivables may not be collectible.
Risk Management in Healthcare Finance
The risks that only exist because a payer sits between you and the cash.
Healthcare Taxation & Compliance
Tax-exempt status, UBIT, and the filings that keep both intact.
Value-based care, technology, ESG, Excel and fraud.
Accounting for Healthcare Technology Investments
Capitalize or expense, on an EHR implementation that never quite ends.
Value-Based Care and Population Health Accounting
Revenue that depends on an outcome you cannot invoice.
Healthcare ESG Reporting
ESG, for an organization whose social impact is the product.
Healthcare Finance Data Analysis in Excel
The dashboard the CFO asks for on Monday, built on Friday.
Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Detection
The schemes, and the controls that would have caught them.
What the path gives you, and who it is for.
What you’ll be able to do.
- NASBA CPE credits for every course you complete
- Immediate access to published courses — and new ones as they release
- Templates, dashboards, checklists and models ready for real-world use
- Hands-on tools training — not just theory
Who it’s for.
- CPAs and accountants moving into healthcare roles and needing sector-specific financial skills
- Controllers, directors and CFOs in healthcare organizations
- Public accountants serving healthcare clients and seeking deeper industry insight
- M&A and finance professionals specializing in healthcare
- Analysts and consultants in healthcare finance
Your instructor
Michael Carroll, CPA, CISA, CISM
Michael is an accounting and information security professional. He is also an Adjunct Professor at several higher education institutions, where he is responsible for teaching various accounting and information technology courses.
Michael earned his MBA in Accounting and B.S. in Accounting / Accounting Information Systems from Canisius University. Additionally, Michael is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Michael is a current member of the NYCPA’s Education Committee and has been an Advisory Board Member for the Academy of Finance (AOF) since 2020.
Alongside the path
Healthcare Accounting Wire
Our healthcare podcast takes the subjects of the path into real cases, from a collapsed startup to the deals that should never close.
Listen to the show
Take the lead in healthcare finance.
- Immediate access to published courses.
- Expert CPA-led instruction.
- Build skills that set you apart in one of the most important industries in the world.
Most courses included. The following courses on this learning path require the Premium planHealthcare Mergers and Acquisitions3.0 CPEHealthcare Taxation & Compliance3.0 CPEHealthcare Fraud Prevention and Detection3.0 CPESee the Premium plan