
Management Accounting
Making it world class
Ralph Adler(Author)
Butterworth-Heinemann (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 28. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-7506-4144-9 (ISBN)
Description
Every modern company now has to compete in a market environment that is becoming ever faster, more complex and competitive. Management accounting must respond to these changes, otherwise its risks becoming irrelevant to real business needs.
This book demonstrates how the discipline can raise itself up to a new level of performance, allowing it to cope with challenges such as flexible manufacturing systems, flatter and leaner organisations, strategic alliances and globalisation. It explains how cutting edge management accounting techniques can transform a firm's operations and prospects, enabling it to become the best of the best. By describing the contributions made by leading practitioners and experts, it shows how their original insights have developed into modern best practice.
This book demonstrates how the discipline can raise itself up to a new level of performance, allowing it to cope with challenges such as flexible manufacturing systems, flatter and leaner organisations, strategic alliances and globalisation. It explains how cutting edge management accounting techniques can transform a firm's operations and prospects, enabling it to become the best of the best. By describing the contributions made by leading practitioners and experts, it shows how their original insights have developed into modern best practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
MBA & MSc (Finance & Accounting) students; Undergraduates studying specialist management accouting modules of business degrees;
Finance academics; Professional management accountants; Finance directors; Quality managers
Finance academics; Professional management accountants; Finance directors; Quality managers
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-4144-9 (9780750641449)
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Person
Ralph Adler is Professor of Management Accounting and Director of the Otago Centre for Organisational Performance Measurement and Management at Otago University, New Zealand.
Content
Introduction Part 1: Being a World-Class Organisation 2. World Class Organizations: conventional wisdom 3. World Class Organizations: The missing link Part 2: Advanced Class Costing Techniques 4. Activity Based Costing 5. Cost of Quality 6. Target Costing Part 3: Advanced Performance Measures 7. Financial Measures 8. Non-financial Measures 9. Benchmarking Part 4: Strategic Management Issues 10. Strategic Cost Management 11. Strategic Investment Decisions 12. Strategic Dimensions to Transfer Pricing and Outsourcing 13. A Destiny for Management Accounting