Download or read book Contemporary Management Accounting Practices in UK Manufacturing written by David Dugdale and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report investigates the presentation and analysis of financial information in 41 UK Manufacturing companies. Traditional and contemporary accounting techniques are exemplified in the case studies. With old and new techniques explored, the research shows that there is little that is new in management accounting theory and practice. The study concludes that there is not one set of practices which all should follow.·Cima research report - reveals methods currently used for reporting financial information in UK manufacturing companies.·Based on 41 companies, it shows a rich diversity of reporting practices that are constrained neither by the financial accounting requirements of SSAP9 nor by any sense of general management accounting trends. ·Financial Directors choose from a toolkit of 'traditional' and 'contemporary' practices in constructing reporting systems appropriate to their varied commercial needs, but with a strong leaning towards contribution margin approaches.

Download or read book EBOOK Management Accounting written by John Burns and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern and contemporary approach to Management Accounting, this brand new textbook written specifically for courses in the UK and Europe provides an essential grounding for students studying both traditional and new Management Accounting techniques. Importantly, this complete text takes its readers beyond just the traditional accounting techniques, to place accounting information and the role of the Management Accountant in a broader organizational context. The text will provide a definitive education for tomorrow's "business-partner" Management Accountants and finance-literate business managers.

Download or read book Management Accounting 6e written by Will Seal and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management Accounting, 6e

Download or read book Management Accounting written by Al Bhimani and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management Accounting is part of the celebrations to mark CIMA's 90th anniversary in 2009. It looks at the development of cost and management accounting from the founding of the Institute to today. It considers a number of immediate challenges to management accountants and surveys a range of issues and challenges that will likely affect management accounting thought and practice in the future. The authors examine the possibilities for accountants to widen their focus and become more familiar with the enterprise technology determining their organisations' cost structures and with the effects of multiple production in various locations, such as economies or diseconomies of scale. Such change may require the alteration of traditional cost models used by accountants to become more nuanced. The book suggests how this may be accomplished and highlights the need for management accountants to work as part of management teams throughout the organisation as business partners rather than remain grounded in specialist information provision roles. Alnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting at the London School of Economics. He is also a Certified Management Accountant as well as an author of 15 books and over 100 articles. Michael Bromwich was CIMA's Professor of Accounting and Financial Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1985 to 2006), now Emeritus. He is a Past President of CIMA (1987/88) and currently serves on CIMA's Technical Committee. - A unique survey of 90 years of CIMA research - Analyses the research to determine future challenges for management accounting and business practices - Charts the history of management accountancy and business practice over nearly 100 years

Download or read book Accounting An Introduction 6 E written by Peter Atrill and published by Pearson Higher Education AU. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting: an introduction by Atrill provides a clear and approachable introduction to accounting and finance for those seeking to understand the main concepts and their practical application to good decision-making.

Download or read book Experiencing Change in German Controlling written by Robert Luther and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Controlling" is the German term for "Management Accounting". This book explores the unique characteristics of German management accounting as opposed to the the management of companies in other countries. It contains unique research taking three different German companies as case studies. It explores the influence of national characteristics and globalization on the ways businesses are run. - Contains three separate in-depth case studies of actual German businesses - The only book of its kind to explore the distinctive qualities of German management accounting

Download or read book The Role of the Management Accountant written by Lukas Goretzki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is considerable national variation in the professionalization and status of the management accountant. Although researchers from different countries have contributed to our knowledge about tasks and roles, we have limited insights into the development, education, and socio-cultural influences in different countries and surprisingly little is known about the local and national contexts in which these roles are learned and performed. This book bridges this research gap using two complementary perspectives. The first part explores management accountants in a range of different national contexts, providing information about country-specific historical developments and educational standards as well as specific roles and tasks. The second part focusses on important global developments that will increasingly impact management accountants in the future, such as sustainability, the financial crisis, technology and changing roles. By combining local context with a global overview, this insightful volume provides an agenda for future research which will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students in management accounting throughout the world.

Download or read book Accounting Organizations and Institutions written by Christopher S. Chapman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management, and accountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important part of the curriculum and research of business and management schools, the fastest growing sector in higher education. This growth is largely a phenomenon of the last 50 years or so. Prior to that, accounting was seen mainly as a mundane, technical, bookkeeping exercise (and some still share that naive view). The growth in accounting has demanded a corresponding engagement by scholars to examine and highlight the important behavioural, organizational, institutional, and social dimensions of accounting. Pioneering work by accounting researchers and social scientists more generally has persuasively demonstrated to a wider social science, professional, management, and policy audience how many aspects of life are indeed constituted, to an important extent, through the calculative practices of accounting. Anthony Hopwood, to whom this book is dedicated, has been a leading figure in this endeavour, which has effectively defined accounting as a distinctive field of research in the social sciences. The book brings together the work of leading international accounting academics and social scientists, and demonstrates the scope, vitality, and insights of contemporary scholarship in and on accounting and auditing.

Download or read book MBA Accounting written by Roger Hussey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a firm grounding in management and financial accounting for MBA students and practising managers. It focuses on the 'why' as well as the 'how to', equipping managers with the tools and knowledge necessary for generating and interpreting accounts.

Download or read book Don t Blame the Tools written by Elizabeth Daniel and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those managing organisations are often criticised for being 'faddish' in their use of new management ideas or innovations, too easily falling into the trap of adopting the latest new idea or concept because it is 'flavour of the month'. This research-based report presents an in-depth account and analysis of the adoption and implementation of two popular large-scale managerial innovations in four different organisations. It provides case studies of actual adoption and implementation of the balanced scorecard and programme/project management offices. The study explores the reasons for the adoption of the innovations and how these reasons shape implementation success. The report also provides examples of good practice that practising managers use to improve the implementation of new management practices in their own organisations. - Presents an original research-based study that explores the reasons why organisations adopt new management practices (e.g. balanced scorecard and programme/project management offices) - Links the reasons for adoption with the success of implementation - Provides examples of good practice that can improve the implementation of new management practices in organisations

Download or read book Review of Management Accounting Research written by Magdy G. Abdel-Kader and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review of contemporary research in management accounting. Provides a thorough critical analysis of recent issues published in the management accounting literature and identifies gaps for future research in each issue reviewed.

Download or read book Non Financial Performance Measurement and Management Practices in Manufacturing Firms written by Ahmed B. Abdel-Maksoud and published by JAI Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a framework for exploring the relationships between the measurement of non-financial performance at the shop-floor of manufacturing firms across four different countries (UK, Italy, Japan, and Canada) and a range of twenty-eight contingent factors incorporating technological, managerial, organisational and environmental factors.

Download or read book Budgeting Practice and Organisational Structure written by David Dugdale and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Budgeting is at the heart of the performance management process for most companies. However, some argue that many companies today are dissatisfied with budgeting. It is seen to be costly and time-consuming; it inhibits action and causes organisational problems. The influence of the "Beyond Budgeting" model has caused many major companies, including Toyota, to abandon traditional budgeting altogether. Should other companies follow suit? Budgeting Practice and Organisational Structure explores the changes in budgeting through a survey of financial and non-financial managers. Concerns include: - The attitudes of managers towards budgeting models - How budgetary practices have changed - What problems budgeting can cause - The effects of budgets on overall company performance. This report reveals that there's little evidence to suggest widespread dissatisfaction with traditional budgeting. However, to enable a company to perform at its best, understanding budgeting in context is essential and it is imperative that budgeting works in tandem with other control systems and organisational structure. - Original research funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accounting - Reveals the realities of budgeting models in practice - Includes interviews and surveys of actual businesses

Download or read book Accounting and Financial Management written by Peter Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting and Financial Management: developments in the international hospitality industry presents new and innovative research and developments in the field of accounting and financial management as it relates to the work of managing enterprises and organisations in the international hospitality industry. The content contains contributions from a rich source of international researchers, academics and practitioners including, university and college lecturers, professional accountants and consultants and senior managers involved in a wide range of teaching, scholarship, research, and consultancy in the hospitality industry worldwide. The material is drawn from their work and experience and relates directly to the management of hospitality undertakings. Therefore the up to date case studies and examples used are taken from a wide ranging of companies across the industry including large international chains such as Sheraton, Holiday Inn, and Intercontinental. Divided into three parts: Performance Management, Information Management and Asset Management the book tackles the following issues amongst others: * Performance management in the international hospitality industry * Benchmarking: measuring financial success * The profit planning framework * Making room rate pricing decisions * Hotel asset management UK and US perspectives * Lowering risk to enhance hospitality firm value Accounting and Financial Management: developments in the international hospitality industry presents current developments drawn from a combination of live fieldwork and practical experience and therefore will content will appeal to a wide-ranging readership including practising managers and financial controllers in hospitality organisations, professional accountants and consultants, postgraduate candidates studying for master's degrees in hospitality management, and final year undergraduate students of hospitality management who elect to take an accounting option.

Download or read book MANAGEMENT AND COST ACCOUNTING written by COLIN M. DRURY and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cultural and Technological Influences on Global Business written by Christiansen, Bryan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology is a key driver behind the effects of contemporary globalization on business and other organizations worldwide. Understanding this phenomena in connection with the impact of cultural variations can help improve business and product life cycles in an era in which corporate capital and liquidity buffers must be increased for unexpected developments in global markets. Cultural and Technological Influences on Global Business is a leading publication in its field emphasizing the importance of deeply exploring the effects of cultures and technologies on the global business sector. This reference source is beneficial for professionals, researchers, and practitioners who wish to broaden their understanding of the direct relationship between culture and technology in the international business realm.

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