Performance Measurement and Management - A Strategic Approach to Management Accounting

Klappentext Management accountancy has a dynamic role to play in the competitive strategy of modern global businesses. This book sets out key strategic principles and then assesses how management accountancy can affect and direct these strategies. Engaging case studies reveal how theories and concepts translate into real business practice. Throughout, the book emphasizes: - how accounting initiatives can trigger assessment and improvement of performance management - the importance of managerial decision making to good business practice - how today's management accountancy measures against current research Written for advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students taking courses on management accounting and performance measurement and management, the book will be also of interest to management and business consultants, professional accountants and accounting academics. Zusammenfassung Advanced Management Accounting looks at factors and strategies concerning the people! processes! systems! controls and innovation within the organization and illustrates their impact through numerous worked case studies relating to real situations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Emerging Issues Performance Measurement and Analysis Strategy Alternatives Product and Customer Profitability Know Your Processes Know Your People Management Information Systems Financial Modelling

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Smith, Professor Malcolm Smith, Smith Malcolm
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2005
• EAN: 9781412907644
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-0764-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Managerial, management accounting, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Management accounting, bookkeeping and auditing