Use of a spreadsheet to develop and track budget performance.
Budgetary performance and responsibility have become as important to many clinical engineering departments as their technical performance. A spreadsheet software package operating on a personal computer is an ideal way to help prepare a budget and to track actual budget performance. The spreadsheet can also become an excellent means for communicating, and possibly justifying, the department's actual budget performance to administration.
D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000191:economics*; D002017:Budgets / Q000379:methods*; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008331:Management Information Systems; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D014481:United States