Title:
Management control systems : performance measurement, evaluation and incentives
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Publication Information:
Harlow, England: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2003
ISBN:
9780273655961
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Summary
Summary
The authors provide materials for a comprehensive course on management control systems (MCSs). The discussions in the text assume a basic level of knowledge of management accounting and core MCS elements.
Table of Contents
Preface |
Part -áI 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 Tightness (or Looseness) |
5 Direct and Indirect Control System Costs |
6 Designing and Evaluating Management Control Systems |
Part -áIII Financial Results Control Systems |
7 Financial Responsibility Centers and The Transfer Pricing Problem |
8 Planning and Budgeting Systems |
9 Financial Performance Targets |
10 Performance-Dependent Rewards (and Punishments) |
Part IV Performance Measurement Issues and their Effects |
11 Accounting Performance Measures and their Effects |
12 Financial Results Control Remedies to the Myopia Problem |
13 Using Financial Results Controls in the Presence of Uncontrollable Factors |
Part -áV Important Management Control Roles and Ethical Issues |
14 Controllers, Auditors and Boards of Directors |
15 Management Control-Related Ethical Issues and Analyses |
Part -áVI Significant Situational Influences on Management Control Systems |
16 The Effects of Environmental Uncertainty, Organizational Strategy, and Multinationality on Management Control Systems |
17 Management Control in Not-for-Profit Organizations |