You have been appointed as the new management accountant to manage the transition of the existing Adelaide Royal Hospital to the proposed new site at Bukit Merah. The hospital has several separate departments responsible for direct patient care. Such as Accident and Emergency, Intensive Care, Neurology, and Cardiology, as well as several support departments such as Radiology and Patient Records. You are a little uncertain as to what your role will be in the new hospital, as consultants have been engaged to design the new management accounting systems. You thought that as a management accountant you would be responsible for developing a new system!

Required

(a). Write a report to senior management explaining how you, as the management accountant, may contribute to the design and operation of the new management accounting systems for the new hospital.

(b). Outline the types of management accounting information that you believe senior managers may require on a regular basis (i.e., weekly and monthly) to manage the operations of the new hospital. Consider both financial and nonfinancial information