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Table 2

Sample interview questions

Sample questions	Interviewees	Organizational level	Reasoning	Links to the theoretical framework
How would you describe what you work with?	All	All	To gather information about the role and tasks of the interviewee and which terminology they use to describe them
Do you use any tools, aids or systems in your work?	All	All	To know more about if and how (accounting) systems play a part in the interviewee's work
Are you aware of any (formal) goals that exist at your workplace/unit/department? (If needed, provide examples such as accessibility, waiting times, patient throughput, patient satisfaction, number of adverse events or deviations.)	In healthcare roles (e.g. nurses, doctors)	Hospital, primary care level	To understand the interviewees' awareness of financial control and management of patient flow	Accounting as problem solving
How do you yourself experience these goals (or another term they use)?	In healthcare roles (e.g. nurses, doctors)	Hospital, primary care level	To understand how the interviewee sees the role and usefulness of financial control and management of patient flow	Accounting as problem solving
Are these goals part of your daily work?	In healthcare roles (e.g. nurses, doctors)	Hospital, primary care level	To understand how the interviewee sees the presence and usefulness of financial control and management of patient flow in their daily work
What does your role look like, do you have any financial responsibility?	In managerial roles, with healthcare training	Operational area level	To gather information about financial responsibility and vertical organizational structures
What does that mean?	In managerial roles, with healthcare training	Operational area level
Are there situations where the financial dimension becomes especially important? Less important?	In managerial roles, with healthcare training	Operational area level l	Financial control vs. horizontal patient flow	Reframing accounting's role in managing patient flow
How are the goals for different units formulated?	In managerial roles, with financial training	Regional level	Financial control structures within RH	Reframing accounting's role in managing patient flow
Can you think of a situation where you and someone else solved a problem related to what we've discussed earlier?	All	All	To know more about how accounting may play a part in solving problems, whether the perceived problem is related to accounting or not	Accounting as a material-discursive practice
Who was involved? What was the problem? How did you experience the situation – was it difficult? Easy?
How did you proceed? How did it play out?
Is there anything you think I should have asked about, or that we should have talked about now that you know what I'm interested in?	All	All	To gather information about additional topics/directions that may enrich the study

Sample questions	Interviewees	Organizational level	Reasoning	Links to the theoretical framework
How would you describe what you work with?	All	All	To gather information about the role and tasks of the interviewee and which terminology they use to describe them
Do you use any tools, aids or systems in your work?	All	All	To know more about if and how (accounting) systems play a part in the interviewee's work
Are you aware of any (formal) goals that exist at your workplace/unit/department? (If needed, provide examples such as accessibility, waiting times, patient throughput, patient satisfaction, number of adverse events or deviations.)	In healthcare roles (e.g. nurses, doctors)	Hospital, primary care level	To understand the interviewees' awareness of financial control and management of patient flow	Accounting as problem solving
How do you yourself experience these goals (or another term they use)?	In healthcare roles (e.g. nurses, doctors)	Hospital, primary care level	To understand how the interviewee sees the role and usefulness of financial control and management of patient flow	Accounting as problem solving
Are these goals part of your daily work?	In healthcare roles (e.g. nurses, doctors)	Hospital, primary care level	To understand how the interviewee sees the presence and usefulness of financial control and management of patient flow in their daily work
What does your role look like, do you have any financial responsibility?	In managerial roles, with healthcare training	Operational area level	To gather information about financial responsibility and vertical organizational structures
What does that mean?	In managerial roles, with healthcare training	Operational area level
Are there situations where the financial dimension becomes especially important? Less important?	In managerial roles, with healthcare training	Operational area level l	Financial control vs. horizontal patient flow	Reframing accounting's role in managing patient flow
How are the goals for different units formulated?	In managerial roles, with financial training	Regional level	Financial control structures within RH	Reframing accounting's role in managing patient flow
Can you think of a situation where you and someone else solved a problem related to what we've discussed earlier?	All	All	To know more about how accounting may play a part in solving problems, whether the perceived problem is related to accounting or not	Accounting as a material-discursive practice
Who was involved? What was the problem? How did you experience the situation – was it difficult? Easy?
How did you proceed? How did it play out?
Is there anything you think I should have asked about, or that we should have talked about now that you know what I'm interested in?	All	All	To gather information about additional topics/directions that may enrich the study

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