On tracing the history of financial accounting and cost accounting, we would notice that the scope of these subjects would seamlessly and imperceptibly move towards their greater use in managerial non-financial decisions. All such decisions would surely have financial repercussions in the long run. However, these will not be obvious in the short term. Thus, using correlated training costs and effectiveness, customer servicing time and customer satisfaction, customer sales and customer profitability is a typical application of management accounting. As the Institute of Management Accounting of the US defines it, management accounting is a value adding continuous process of planning, designing, measuring, and operating both non-financial information systems and financial information systems that guides management action, motivates behaviour, and supports and creates the cultural values necessary to achieve an organization's strategic, tactical, and operating objectives In every one of these segments of the value chain, management accountants help in identifying the key controllable factors and success factors, cost and efficiency, quality, time management, innovation, and benchmarking. They use standard costing and variance analysis to help the management to correct themselves for achieving operational and strategic targets. These functions are briefly described as under: Research and Development: Keeping a tag on the project cost and achievement of milestones, warning of the likelihood of future excess over project cost based on PERT cost analysis, choice of projects based on likely internal rate of return.

221 Does temporal arteritis headache or other pain respond to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs?

222 What is the recommended target of total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in secondary prevention of ischaemic stroke?

223 Is intravenous sodium nitroprusside contraindicated in lowering resistant hypertension secondary to primary intracerebral haemorrhage?

224 After how long can a patient with primary intracerebral haemorrhage safely be prescribed aspirin for secondary prophylaxis of further ischemic strokes? Or should aspirin no longer be prescribed in this case?

225 Does occlusion of the recurrent Heubner's artery result in weakness of the upper limb that is proximal more than distal?

226 I have recently been told by fellow cardiologists that statins have a role to play in the acute management of myocardial infarction: is this true? And does this extend to the acute management of ischemic stroke?

227 What is captocormia?

228 Should mannitol be prescribed to patients with primary intracerebral haemorrhage with signs of impending herniation and is it contraindicated in patients with heart failure or liver cell failure?

229 What is the clinical significance of a positive Babinski sign with no knee jerk?

230 Is a high serum level of triglycerides 200-400 mg a risk factor for ischaemic stroke?