Complete ACCT-510
Explore Accounting with Healthcare Administration
Advance your career by integrating the financial expertise of a Master’s in Accounting with specialized knowledge in healthcare management through a Healthcare Administration Certificate. This unique combination prepares you to tackle the financial complexities of the healthcare industry, equipping you with the skills to manage healthcare systems, financial operations, and project management in healthcare settings. Our program emphasizes the integration of cutting-edge technologies like AI, blockchain, and cloud computing in financial processes, while the healthcare administration component enhances your ability to navigate the rapidly growing healthcare sector.
Secure Your Future
Distinguish yourself with an accredited online master’s degree in accounting that offers:
- Advanced Accounting Skills: Develop expertise in financial statement analysis, auditing, and forensic accounting, ensuring you can effectively manage financial data in various organizational contexts, including healthcare.
- Healthcare Management Proficiency: Gain essential knowledge of healthcare system design, financial management in healthcare, healthcare information systems, and project management. Apply these skills to improve healthcare delivery and operations.
- Technological Proficiency: Master the integration of AI, blockchain, cloud computing, and other advanced technologies into healthcare financial processes, enhancing your ability to manage healthcare organizations more efficiently.
- Certifications Preparation: Prepare for advanced certifications like CPA, CMA, and CIA while also gaining credentials in healthcare administration to enhance your career prospects in the healthcare industry.
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Academic Excellence and Recognition
Regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education
Ranked among the Best Online Bachelor’s Programs by U.S. News & World Report
Designated as a Military Friendly School for our commitment to the military community
Named the among the best schools with accelerated bachelor's degrees by Intelligent.com
How Can an MS in Accounting with a Healthcare Administration Certificate Help Your Career?
The healthcare industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, and the combination of accounting expertise with healthcare administration knowledge positions you for leadership roles in this dynamic field. This dual focus can lead to high-level positions such as healthcare financial manager, healthcare auditor, healthcare administrator, and financial controller within healthcare organizations.
Graduates of this program are well-prepared to pursue professional certifications in both accounting and healthcare administration, making them highly competitive in the job market.
Top Jobs for MS in Accounting Graduates with Healthcare Administration Expertise
- Healthcare Financial Manager
- Healthcare Auditor
- Healthcare Administrator
- Chief Financial Officer
- Financial Analyst in Healthcare
- Risk Manager
Program Details
Champlain's online accounting courses encompass the top skills needed by today's business professionals.
Professional Courses (21 Credits)
Graduate Certificate (9 Credits)
Advances your understanding of how to use financial information to value and analyze firms. Uses an understanding of a firm's strategy, what is contained in financial reports, why firms report certain information, and how to be a sophisticated user of this information. Evaluates current performance and its future sustainability, forecasts future profitability and risk, and values businesses using earnings and book value data. Develops a foundation to effectively communicate financial information.
Investigates and evaluates techniques for identifying and measuring business risk and for devising strategies incorporating risk analysis into strategic planning. Ties strategic objectives, risks, internal controls and critical success factors to business performance measurements to evaluate an entity's progress toward achieving strategic goals. Includes both quantitative and qualitative measurements and emphasizes effective communication of financial information.
Examines major international dimensions of financial and managerial accounting. Discusses national and cultural influences on accounting and on the accounting profession. Investigates financial regulation and IFRS accounting and financial reporting standards. Investigates corporate decisions related to methods of currency translation and accounting for gains and losses from exchange rate fluctuations. Explores managerial accounting issues raised by international organizations.
Prerequisites
Students will explore how technologies like cloud computing, blockchain, and non-generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing the field of accounting by automating accounting processes, enhancing accuracy and efficiency in financial reporting, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations. The course also addresses critical issues like cybersecurity, data privacy, and ethical considerations specific to the accounting profession. Future trends will also be explored.
Focuses on complex frauds (including financial statement fraud, tax fraud and money laundering), and on non-fraud forensic accounting engagements (including cases of patent infringement, commercial damages and anti-trust.) Covers related investigation methods and legal issues, valuation models, reporting and communicating findings, testifying as an expert witness and other litigation advisory services.
Prerequisites
Complete ACCT-520
Students will focus on the application of technologies in auditing and how the technologies change the audit processes and the audit profession. The course covers data-driven audit methods, the use of AI and machine learning in the audit processes.
Students learn about the U.S. health care system, including the government's role in the industry, cost and quality issues, managed care, reimbursement mechanisms, legal and regulatory issues, profit vs. non-profit care, the role of technology, and then compare it to international health care systems. Students will begin to conceptualize new models of delivery through analysis of barriers to process improvement and the use of design thinking and analytics. Students will appraise development, implementation and management of system components.
Managing information as a strategic resource is challenging. Students will design IT systems to capture, combine, and transform data into information to measure processes/outcomes of care, support clinical decision-making and management decisions, empower patients, and improve health care operations. Students explore health information systems within the context of associated business processes to develop innovative solutions. Management of change as related to clinical systems will also be stressed to help build buy-in, engage individuals and ultimately improve workflow and system design.
Prerequisites
Complete HCMT-515 concurrently or prior to HCMT-523
Students learn to apply elements of regulation, law and ethics to the administrative process in a variety of healthcare settings and situations. Healthcare administrators can avoid many legal disputes by understanding basic concepts such as patient rights, informed consent and privacy regulations. Course themes include the legal barriers that interfere with process improvement, malpractice, and the limits on sharing information across institutions. Students analyze recent legal developments, including the Affordable Care Act, medical marijuana, and right to die legislation.
Prerequisites
Complete HCMT-515 concurrently or prior to HCMT-535.
Graduates of the master of accounting online program will demonstrate the following industry-specific skills, knowledge, and competencies:
- Interpret financial information and integrate that information, using relevant technologies where appropriate to support decision making by internal and external stakeholders.
- Assess an organization’s accounting and IT internal controls to ensure the management and protection of sound financial information, reduce financial risks, and meet strategic goals.
- Communicate financial information that promotes sound financial decision making.
- Merge traditional accounting practices with technological tools to enhance financial decision-making, reporting, and auditing.
Graduates of the healthcare administration online graduate certificate program will also demonstrate the following industry-specific skills, knowledge, and competencies:
- Applies and integrates information technology to improve patient care, outcomes and quality
- Leads change in health care organizations through strategic thinking, collaboration, and communication for impact
- Integrates ethics, privacy and security, governing law, and regulatory structures to maintain optimal organizational effectiveness and compliance
Champlain College Online's business faculty, led by Department Chair Dr. Albert Orbinati, are expert practitioners in the field. Their industry expertise ensures that our business management curriculum is aligned with the needs of employers, and reflects the skills today’s business professionals need for success. Classes led by our seasoned experts will give you real-world insight into the business world, and create a rich community of career-focused learning.
Tuition & Costs
Graduate Tuition Fall '23 - Summer '25
$595
per credit
$1,785*
per course
$450**
PER CREDIT FOR ALUMNI WHO EARNED A DEGREE FROM CHAMPLAIN, ON-CAMPUS or online
$450
per credit military service members (family members see truED tuition)
$150
One-time graduation fee
*Based on a 3-credit course; cost will vary if course is a different number of credits
** Starting Summer 2024, not retroactive
See the graduate cost of attendance and fees here
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Meet the Program Director
Albert Orbinati, PhD
Department Chair and Assistant Professor, CCO Business Programs
Oversees
- Business (A.S., B.S., M.S., Certificates)
- Human Resource Management (B.S., Certificates)
- Leadership (M.S.)
- Management Information Systems (B.S.)
- Organization Development & Human Relations (M.S.)
About
Albert Orbinati, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Department Chair for the undergraduate and graduate business programs at Champlain College Online.
Prior to Champlain, Dr. Orbinati's roles have included Assistant Vice President of Online Learning and Continuing Education at Medaille University in Buffalo, NY; Dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Education at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY; and Director of Online and Non-Traditional Programs at Utica University in Utica, NY. In addition to his career in higher education, Albert is a member of the U.S. military, and currently holds the rank of Major in the Vermont Air National Guard.
Dr. Orbinati holds a B.A. in Urban Planning from Binghamton University, an M.A. in Adult Education from Central Michigan University, an M.B.A from Champlain College, and a Ph.D. in Adult Education from Capella University.
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