Managerial accounting Cost accounting provides invaluable aid to management. It provides detailed costing information to the management to enable them to maintain effective control over stores and inventory, to increase efficiency of the organisation and to check wastage and losses. It facilitates delegation of responsibility for important tasks and rating of employees. For all these, the management should be capable of using the information provided by cost accounts in a proper way.

41 What is the meaning of the international normalized ratio (INR) blood test?

42 What is the cause of moderate thrombocytopenia in Bernard-Soulier syndrome? It is a qualitative defect not a quantitative platelet disorder. Question 43 What is new about thrombopoietin?

44 What is the rationale behind the use of desmopressin in bleeding disorders?

45 What effect does the contraceptive pill have on the blood fibrinogen level and on blood coagulability?

46 Does standard (unfractionated) heparin in doses of 10 000-15 000 units/day need monitoring?

47 Is there an antidote for low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH)? Can Enoxaprin be used?

48 1. What is the mechanism of the action of aprotinin? 2. What is the therapeutic window for aprotinin? 3. In a case of haemorrhagic stroke, how many days should aprotinin be prescribed for and what is the recommended dosage?

49 My question is, what are thrombophilia scan tests? Can we use these in patients on anticoagulant therapy?

50 In thromboembolic disorders, how is clopidogrel superior to aspirin?