Cost Accounting: Bridging the Gap Between Where You are and Where You Should Be
Catherine Savage

Catherine Savage is an Assistant Vice President, with responsibilities focused on the firm’s Cost Accounting and Decision Support implementation group. She serves as Practice Lead for the group, implements Costing and Decision Support software for client hospitals and health systems of varying sizes and complexity nationwide, and provides ongoing consultation.
Ms. Savage has 30 years of healthcare finance experience. Prior to joining Syntellis, she was Manager of Profitability Analysis for Northside Hospital in Atlanta, where she oversaw system-wide financial analysis. She also had responsibility for the cost accounting process and the annual capital budget. Prior to that, Ms. Savage was a cost accounting instructor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She began her career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen.
Ms. Savage holds an M.B.A. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Business from the University of Illinois. She is a CPA.
Establishing a Structure for Effective Cost Transformation
Axiom Budgeting and Forecasting for Healthcare
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