AC310: Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organizational Control - Module 4 (Accounting in the New Public Sector).

These notes cover the final module of the AC310 Management Accounting course at LSE which covers the following topics: Management accounting and financial management in the 'New Public Sector', including performance measurement, cost accounting, cost management and pricing; the roles of accounting controls in the health system reforms in the UK and elsewhere.

These notes contain comprehensive reading summaries for 19 assigned readings in word documents including important quotes from the readings. There are also a number of summaries of the lecture slides, a selection of practice essays written by myself and marked at 70% . In addition, there is a homework exercise which includes a case study of cost accounting in a health care setting and an accompanying essay.

For revision purposes, there are a selection of revision sheets which summarize the main ideas of the module, a bibliography containing a list of authors, dates and relevant topic areas to memorise prior to exams, and a syllabus written to ensure you revise all the relevant topics.