Financial Management in the Public Sector
- A list of NHS Hospital Trusts will be given in the first tutorial. Each student will be assigned two Trusts.
- Students will be required to browse and research the websites, annual reports and other relevant publicly available information about the Hospital Trusts with a special focus on the strategic issues and financial statements of these organisations. The key focus of the analysis is to answer the following questions:
- What are the strategic objectives and priorities of the organisations?
- What accountability arrangements are in place for these Trusts and what key issues are faced by them?
- What is the financial position of those Trusts after examining their income and expenditure patterns?
- What are similarities and differences in the issues faced by these organisations
- What are similarities and differences in their financial accounts?
