Question 1

A health plan's costs can be classified as committed costs or discretionary costs. An example of a discretionary cost for a health plan is the cost of its:

Options :

A : Facilities

B : Executive salaries

C : Employee training

D : Equipment

Answer: A

Question 2

In order to determine a health plan's quick liquidity ratio, a financial analyst would divide the health plan's:

Options :

A : Total assets not invested in affiliates by its total liabilities

B : Liquid assets by its total liabilities

C : Liquid assets by its contractual reserves

D : Total assets by its contractual reserves

Answer: C

Question 3

The Fairway health plan is a for-profit health plan that issues stock. The following data was taken from Fairway's financial statements:

Current assets.....$5,000,000 -

Total assets.....$6,000,000 -

Current liabilities.....$2,500,000

Total liabilities.....$3,600,000

Stockholders' equity.....$2,400,000

Fairway's total revenues for the previous financial period were $7,200,000, and its net income for that period was $180,000.

Assume that the healthcare industry average for the debt-to-equity ratio is 0.90.

The following statement(s) can correctly be made about Fairway's debt to equity ratio:

Options :

A : Fairway-s debt-to-equity ratio is 1.50

B : Fairway relies less than most other healthcare organizations on borrowed funds to cover future and current benefit payments, to pay for ongoing business operations, and to finance growth

C : Both A and B

D : A only

E : B only

F : Neither A nor B

Answer: B

Question 4

A health plan can use segment margins to evaluate the profitability of its profit centers.

One characteristic of a segment margin is that this margin:

Options :

A : Is the portion of the contribution margin that remains after a segment has covered its direct fixed costs

B : Incorporates only the costs attributable to a segment, but it does not incorporate revenues

C : Considers only a segment-s costs that fluctuate in direct proportion to changes in the segment-s level of operating activity

D : Evaluates the profit center-s effective use of assets employed to earn a profit

Answer: A

Question 5

Companies typically produce three types of budgets: operational budgets, cash budgets, and capital budgets. The following statements are about operational budgets. Select the answer choice containing the correct statement.

Options :

A : Expense budgets, a type of operational budget, typically describe fixed expenses rather than variable expenses.

B : Operational budgets can only show information by department or by line of business.

C : Operational budgets begin with a forecast of sales revenue and investment income.

D : Revenue budgets, a type of operational budget, indicate the amount of income from operations that a company received from the previous budget period

Answer: C

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