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Management Control Systems Kenneth Merchant

Management Control Systems By Kenneth Merchant

Management Control Systems by Kenneth Merchant


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Summary

This best-selling and market-leading text gives students a thorough understanding of the core concepts and key topics of management control and related performance measurement and incentive systems, processes, and critical trade-offs in their design and use, employing a wide range of international case studies and real life examples.

Management Control Systems Summary

Management Control Systems by Kenneth Merchant

This title was recommended as a significant textbook within Bruno S. Frey and Christoph A. Schaltegger (eds), 21st Century Economics - Economic Ideas You Should Read and Remember (Springer, 2019). As the market-leading text for Management Control and performance measurement, Management Control Systems 4th Edition will give you a thorough understanding of core concepts and key topics. Including a wide range of international case studies and real life examples means this is the ideal guide for understanding complex topics and bringing this subject to life.

Management Control Systems Reviews

If this book were fiction, I would refer to it as a real page-turner Eddy Vaassen, Tilburg University The book provides a comprehensive view of management control systems and is written in a very engaging style Paul Summers, Summit Accountancy Training / University of Liverpool

About Kenneth Merchant

Kenneth A. Merchant is the Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy at the University of Southern California. He is well-known internationally in the field of management accounting. Wim A. Van der Stede is the CIMA Professor of Accounting and Financial Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. An author and teacher, he brings a European perspective and a wealth of experience to this book.

Table of Contents

PART I: The Control function of Management 1 Management and Control PART II: Management Control alternatives and their effects 2 Results Controls 3 Action, Personnel, and Cultural Controls 4 Control System Tightness 5 Control System Costs 6 Designing and Evaluating Management Control Systems PART III: Financial Results Control Systems 7 Financial Responsibility Centers 8 Planning and Budgeting 9 Incentive Systems PART IV: Performance measurement issues and their effects 10 Financial Performance Measures and their Effects 11 Combinations of Measures and Other Remedies to the Myopia Problem 12 Using Financial Results Control in the Presence of Uncontrollable Factors PART V: Corporate Governance, Important Control-related roles and Ethics 13 Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors 14 Controllers and Auditors 15 Management Control-Related Ethical Issues and Analyses PART VI: Significant Situational influences on management control systems 16 Management Control in Non-Profit Organizations Index

Additional information

CIN1292110554VG
9781292110554
1292110554
Management Control Systems by Kenneth Merchant
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
20170505
792
N/A
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