How do I design an operating budget for a healthcare organization?

With the following components:

1.Executive Summary: In the introduction, restate your approach and assumptions, the necessary background to your approach, and how you intend to address the key issues.

2.Assumptions: In this section, you integrate the information from the financial and operational analyses, make assumptions about the current and future status of the organization, and provide the rationale and supporting data for each assumption. The presentation should provide the reader with sufficient information to understand and support the assumptions.

3.Financial and Operational Analysis: In this section, you provide an in-depth analysis of the financial and operational issues of the healthcare organization, supported by relevant operational indicators, analysis, and current high-quality literature sources.

4.Benchmarks and Comparative Analysis: Present what you discovered in your search of the literature for operational benchmarks of healthcare organizations. Complete a comparative analysis based on the operational benchmarks and your financial and operational analysis.

5.Operational Budget: In this section, present your best estimate, based on current knowledge and assumptions of the financial operations of the organization for the following year (Year 2), using the current year (Year 1) as the base year.

6.Conclusion: summarize your major findings and recommendations.