Steven Finkler

Dr. Finkler is Professor Emeritus of Public and Health Administration, Accounting, and Financial Management. He served as Director of the Specialization in Healthcare Financial Management at Wagner for over twenty years. He is an award winning teacher and author.

He received a B.S. with joint majors in finance and accounting (Summa Cum Laude) and M.S. in Accounting (with Highest Distinction) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in Business Administration were awarded by Stanford University. Dr. Finkler, who is also a CPA, worked for several years as an auditor with Ernst and Young and was on the faculty of the Wharton School before joining NYU.

Among his publications are twenty-five books. Several of them are Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations, 4th Ed. (with Robert Purtell, Thad Calabrese, and Daniel Smith), Financial Management for Nurse Managers and Executives, 4th Ed. (with Cheryl Jones and Christine Kovner), Essentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations, 3rd Ed. (with David Ward and Judith Baker), and Accounting Fundamentals for Health Care Management, 2nd Ed. (with David Ward and Thad Calabrese).

He has published over 200 articles in Health Services Research, The New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine, Hospitals and Health Services Administration, Healthcare Financial Management, Health Care Management Review, Nursing Economics, The Journal of Nursing Administration, _Medical Care, _and many other academic journals.

He is the former Editor of Hospital Cost Management and Accounting, and has served on the editorial boards of Health Services Research, Health Care Management Review and Research in Healthcare Financial Management. Dr. Finkler served four years as a national advisory council member at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and is a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors and as Treasurer of Daughters of Israel Geriatric Center, in New Jersey.

Dr. Finkler was a full-time faculty member at Wagner from 1984 until his retirement in 2006.  He currently teaches online Budgeting courses at Wagner, and also teaches educational programs for the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE).

Areas of Expertise

Education

Finance

Health Management

Health Policy

Management

Public & Nonprofit Organizations