Download or read book Participation in Budgeting Business Unit Strategy and Managerial Performance written by Suzanne E. Maloney and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Participative Budgeting and Its Effects on Employee Motivation written by Jorg Drischel and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 64% (England = B+), University of the West of England, Bristol (Bristol Business School - Bachelors Degree Business Administration), 31 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Accounting is an important aspect of management control. Budgets are unarguably the most obvious form of utilising accounting data to monitor and punish or reward strategic business units and consequently employees, regardless of whether they are managers or workers on the shop floor, according to their performance in relation to budgeted targets. "The budget is a financial plan for implementing the various decisions that management has made" (Drury 1997, p. 8). Participation in the formation process of budgets by those ultimately affected is practised in companies with the aim to generate a better-performing workforce. Empirical evidence on the effects of participative budgeting is ambiguous and the literature is fragmented. In this paper, I shall mainly review research on participative budgeting as well as other issues in budgeting and some critical perspectives on budgeting as a means of management control.

Download or read book Organizational Determinants of Budgetary Influence and Involvement written by Noah P. Barsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on network theory from the organizational sociology literature, this book examines issues related to which organizational factors determine how employees influence the budgeting process. Data were collected from managers who participate in the budgeting process at a major apparel manufacturer. Social network analysis was employed to measure how the structure of the network of managers affects the budgeting process. The results show that budgetary influence is structurally determined and resides with managers holding central positions in the organizational network. Thus, while formal procedures determine which employees are involved in budgeting activities, only centrally positioned managers actually influence budgetary outcomes. The findings indicate that influence, not involvement, is the key to empowerment in the budgeting process. This research suggests that researchers and practitioners should be aware of an organization's social structure when examining a participative budgeting process. The difference between formal designs and actual influence is indicative of a "rhetoric-reality gap" which can impair the effectiveness of management control systems.

Download or read book Role and Effects of Budgeting in Managerial Practice written by Christoph Butz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,0, Maastricht University, course: Management Accounting, language: English, abstract: Budgeting is a major area of management accounting and receives a lot of interest from researchers who mainly concentrate their studies on the design of budget schemes and the process of setting budgets. Concerning the use in practice, a survey of senior managers in 219 publicly traded firms indicated that “75 percent thought of the budgetary process as a managerial rather than an accounting function” (Zimmerman, 2009, p. 250). However, the effects of budgets and budget processes on managerial performance and effort are still not clear. This paper aims at providing an overview of a collection of recent research papers to investigate how different types of budgets influence managerial behavior and performance and what implications these findings have for managerial practice. Therefore, in the first section the general role of budgeting in organizations will be described. Next, different types of budgets and budget levels are introduced and their effects on managerial behavior and performance will be examined. Finally, several implications of those effects for managerial practice will be given, before a conclusion wraps up the main points of this report.

Download or read book Handbooks of Management Accounting Research 3 Volume Set written by Christopher S. Chapman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Management Accounting section of the American Accounting Association notable contribution to Management Accounting Literature AwardVolume One of the Handbook of Management Accounting Research series sets the context for the Handbooks, with three chapters outlining the historical development of management accounting as a discipline and as a practice in three broad geographic settings.Volume Two provides insights into research on different management accounting practices. Volume Three features contributions from some of the most influential researchers in various areas of management accounting research, consolidates the content of volumes one and two, and concludes with examples of management accounting research from around the world.Volumes 1, 2 and 3 are also available as individual product. * ISBN Volume 1: 978-0-08-044564-9* ISBN Volume 2: 978-0-08-044754-4* ISBN Volume 3: 978-0-08-055450-1 - Three volumes of the popular Handbooks of Management Accounting Research series now available in one complete set - Examines particular management accounting practices and specific organizational contexts - Adopts a global perspective of management accounting practice - Award: "Winner of the Management Accounting section of the American Accounting Association notable contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award."

Download or read book Handbook of Management Accounting Research written by Christopher S. Chapman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of the Handbooks of Management Accounting Research sets the context for both Handbooks, with three chapters outlining the historical development of management accounting as a discipline and as a practice in three broad geographic settings. The bulk of the first volume then draws together a series of contributions that analyse the scholarly literature in terms of distinct intellectual and theoretical social science perspectives. The volume includes a chapter which looks at work informed by psychology as a base discipline. The volume also includes a set of chapters that seek to evaluate and explain issues of research method for the different approaches to research found within management accounting. Special pricing available if purchased as a set with Volume 2. - Documents the scholarly management accounting literature - Publishing both in print, and online through Science Direct - International in scope

Download or read book Principles of Accounting Volume 2 Managerial Accounting written by Mitchell Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A less-expensive grayscale paperback version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680922936. Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Each chapter opens with a relatable real-life scenario for today's college student. Thoughtfully designed examples are presented throughout each chapter, allowing students to build on emerging accounting knowledge. Concepts are further reinforced through applicable connections to more detailed business processes. Students are immersed in the "why" as well as the "how" aspects of accounting in order to reinforce concepts and promote comprehension over rote memorization.

Download or read book Management Control Theory written by A.J. Berry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume of readings provides an overview of the development of the study of Management Control theory over the past 35 years. The period encompasses the publication of a major and seminal text by Anthony and Dearden in 1965, which acted as a touchstone in defining the range and scope of management control systems. This laid management control’s foundations in accounting-based mechanisms of control, an element which has been seen as both a strength and a constraint. A good deal of work has followed, providing both a development of the tradition as well as a critique. In this volume we attempt to provide a range of readings which will illustrate the variety of possibilities that are available to researchers, scholars and practitioners in the area. The readings illustrate the view that sees control as goal directed and integrative. They go on to explore the idea of control as adaption, consider its relationship with social structure and survey the effects of the interplay between the organisation and the environment. The essays included are not intended to lead the reader through a well-ordered argument which concludes with a well reasoned view of how management control should be. Instead it seeks to illustrate the many questions which have been posed but not answered and to open up agendas for future research.

Download or read book Readings in Accounting for Management Control written by David Otley and Kenneth Merchant Clive Emmanuel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Controlling Strategy written by Christopher S. Chapman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-06-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas about the role of management accounting systems in a firm's strategy have changed in recent years, and this book explores the ways in which this has happened. Management control systems have frequently been seen as irrelevant to strategy, or even damaging. Controlling Strategy draws out the various ways in which management control systems can build and sustain valuable strategic roles. The book explores topics such as: *Strategic measurement; *Strategic data analysis; *The Balanced Scorecard; *Capital budgeting; *Strategy coordination; Written as an introduction to the strategic role of management control systems Controlling Strategy provides a synthesis of important work in the fields of strategy and management accounting. Academics and Advanced Students of Accounting, Strategy, or Management Studies will find the book an indispensable guide to this area.

Download or read book Handbook of Cost Management written by Roman L. Weil and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Cost Management, Second Edition covers all of the essential topics in cost management and accounting. It includes conventional topics, such as job costing and cost allocation, as well as such current topics as balanced scorecard, economic value added, logistics and marketing cost, theory of constraints, inter-organizational costing, and the cost of quality.

Download or read book Beyond Budgeting written by Jeremy Hope and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2003-02-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional annual budgeting process--characterized by fixed targets and performance incentives--is time consuming, overcentralized, and outdated. Worse, it often causes dysfunctional and unethical managerial behavior. Based on an intensive, international study into pioneering companies, Beyond Budgeting offers an alternative, coherent management model that overcomes the limitations of traditional budgeting. Focused around achieving sustained improvement relative to competitors, it provides a guiding framework for managing in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Advances in Management Accounting written by John Y. Lee and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features articles on a call for future research on management accounting service quality; budget ratcheting and performance; effect of trust-in-superior and trustfulness on budgetary slack; relationship between purposes of budget use and budgetary slack; strategic budgeting in public schools; and, more.

Download or read book Budgetary Participation Motivation and Managerial Performance written by Peter Brownell and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Participation in Budgeting Locus of Control and Organizational Effectiveness Classic Reprint written by Peter Brownell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Participation in Budgeting, Locus of Control and Organizational Effectiveness At the individual level, the rwflfie of reward structure as a conditioning variable was studied by Cherrington and Cherrington In an experimental setting, they found that where participation in budgeting was low, rewards administered on the basis of aggregate output rather than budget-related output, led to higher performance. Conversely, under conditions of high participation, performance was clearly superior when rewards were linked to twfiget achievement. The findings support the intuitively appealing notion that 'budgets, if provided salience through a process of high participation, should logically provide a primary basis for performance evaluation of the members of an organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Advances in Accounting written by Philip M J Reckers and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-05-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Accounting

Download or read book Determinants and Consequences of the Use of Budgets written by Stefan Hofmann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alteration of the business environment has heightened the role of management accounting and control systems (MACS). Not only the design of MACS has gained increased relevance but also the ways in which MACS are used. Based upon empirical data from 69 German manufacturing companies of different industries testing the developed research model, the evidence reinforces the knowledge concerning budgets and their use and essentially bridges the gap in understanding the relationship between budgeting and strategy by revealing the positive effects formal MACS perform. This book is important reading for graduate students of business administration and executives with focus on budgeting management accounting and strategic management.