Management accounting in local government - the education service, Rowan Jones and Maurice W.Pendlebury; management accounting in the police service, Desmond Farry; management accounting in direct labour organizations, Tony Hope and Linda Kirkham; management-accounting developments in British Rail, David Allen; colliery accountability in the British Coal Corporation, Philip Andrew and David Otley; management accounting in British universities, Graham Keenleside; management accounting for recurrent expenditure in the National Health Service, Michael Bourn; capital accounting in the National Health Service, Anthony Cook; management-accounting developments in the Customs and Excise Department, Tony Killikelly.