Global Business School for Health
Assessment brief
2022/23
Module code and name
GBSH0013 Accounting and Financial Reporting for healthcare
Title of assessment
A written report on the scope and complexity of the financial management for a public general hospital
in UK healthcare system. (2500 word limit, 100% summative assessment)
What learning outcomes will be assessed
Understand and able to interpret accounting information and financial statements
Ability to analyse and assess a variety of complex financial management issues
Mount and sustain an independent level of inquiry into financial management issues
Ability to undertake qualitative, numerical and statistical evaluation as a means to develop an analysis of
financial health of a hospital using financial data and information
Keywords
Financial statements, financial report analysis, financial management, cost accounting, budgeting
Description of the assessment
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Students are required to find a public hospital in UK and complete a written report to discuss the financial health and
financial management of this organisation from year 2018 to 2021. Students are required to search for relevant report or
information and conduct analysis using both numerical and qualitative methods to demonstrate following learning
outcomes:
1. Understand and interpret balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement with notes information(30%)
2. Critically analyse financial reports information and relavent nonfinancial information and evaluate the performance
of the organisation using financial condition analysis techniques (30%)
3. Describe and undertand the costing system and payment system of the organisation, and make critical discussion
on its effectiveness with supporting references (25%)
4. Describe another perspecitve of financial management, such as budgeting plan/setting, capital budgeting etc., and
critically evaluate the effectiveness with reference supported (10%)
5. Presentation and writing skill (5%)
Herewith a few recommended readings to support but please do not restricted to this. Wide research and critical discussion
is highly expected.
Recommended readings:
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Popesko, B., 2013. Specifics of the activity-based costing applications in hospital management. International Journal of
Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health, 5(3), p.179.
Vo, T.Q., Van Hoang, M. and Riewpaiboon, A., 2018. National Reference Unit Cost of Health-care Services: International
Experiences. Applied Healthcare
Management in Vietnam, p.27.
Blunt, I. and Bardsley, M., 2012. Use of patient-level costing to increase efficiency in NHS trusts. Nuffield Trust, pp.2017-
01.
Vogl, M., 2013. Improving patient-level costing in the English and the German ‘DRG’system. Health Policy, 109(3),
pp.290-300.
Bourn, M. and Ezzamel, M., 1986. Costing and budgeting in the National Health Service. Financial Accountability &
Management, 2(1), pp.53-71.
King, M., Lapsley, I., Mitchell, F. and Moyes, J., 1994. Costing needs and practices in a changing environment: the
potential for ABC in the NHS. Financial Accountability & Management, 10(2), pp.143-160.
Jacobs, K., 1998. Costing health care: a study of the introduction of cost and budget reports into a GP
association. Management Accounting Research, 9(1), pp.55-70.
Preston, A.M., Cooper, D.J. and Coombs, R.W., 1992. Fabricating budgets: a study of the production of management
budgeting in the National Health Service. accounting, organizations and society, 17(6), pp.561-593.
Gaffney, D., Pollock, A.M., Price, D. and Shaoul, J., 1999. PFI in the NHS—is there an economic case . Bmj, 319(7202),
pp.116-119.
Dixon J. Payment by results–new financial flows in the NHS. BMJ. 2004 Apr 24;328(7446):969-70. doi:
10.1136/bmj.328.7446.969. PMID: 15105304; PMCID: PMC404484.
Department of Health. A simple guide to payment by results
Assessment criteria
And if relevant, the weighting given to each criteria
1. Understand and correctly interpret balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement (15%)
2. Understand and interpret annual account notes information (15%)
3. Critically analyse financial reports and performance using financial condition analysis techniques,
ratio analysis (20%), trend analysis, KPI etc. (10%)
4. Research on the costing and payment system, understand patient level cosing and payment by
result (5%)
5. Critically discuss activity based costing(ABC) in NHS and extend to time driven ABC. (15%)
6. Critically discuss payment by result vs payment by activity (5%)
7. Critical discussion on other financial management perspectives: (10%)
Describe budgeting plans and budgeting process, conduct brief variance analysis
Critically discuss budgeting in NHS, connecting with NHS oversight framework
Research on financial or managerial challenges of this hospital and advice for the hospital on financial
management improvement
Etc.
8. Clear and logic presentation of report (2%)
9. Good reference to literature (3%)
Due date
Term 1 exam period, 6th. of Jan. 2023
Indicative date for releasing date
Note that the UCL policy requires you to provide feedback no later than one calendar month after the
submission deadline
6
th. Feb. 2023