Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting

by Alnoor Bhimani

Overview

The book comprehensively covers established and emerging areas in the fast changing field of Management Accounting. Well established accounting practices such as budgeting, costing, responsibility accounting and capital investment analysis are discussed alongside innovative and emerging accounting based approaches to organizational control.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199283361
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/17/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Alnoor Bhimani is Reader in Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics. He holds a BSc from King's College London, an MBA from Cornell University and a PhD from LSE. He is also a Certified Management Accountant (Canada). He has co-authored a number of books including Management Accounting: Evolution not Revolution (CIMA, 1989), Management Accounting: Pathways to Progress (CIMA, 1994) and Management and Cost Accounting (Prentice Hall, 2005). Al has also edited Management Accounting: European Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Management Accounting in the Digital Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003). He has written numerous articles in scholarly publications and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He has undertaken management accounting related fieldwork in a variety of global enterprises and has presented his research to corporate executives and academic audiences in Europe, Asia and North America.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Anthony HopwoodPreface, Alnoor Bhimani1. New Measures in Performance Management, Thomas Ahrens and Christopher S Chapman2. Analysis of Managerial Accounting Issues, Stanley Baiman3. Reframing Management Accounting Practice: A Diversity of Perspectives, Jane Baxter and Wai Fong Chua4. Management Accounting and Digitization, Alnoor Bhimani5. The Contingent Design of Performance Measures, Robert H. Chenhall6. Integrated Cost Management, Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder7. Capital Bugeting and Informational Impediments: A Management Accounting Perspective, Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb, and Chih-Yang Tseng8. Accounting and Strategy: Towards Understanding the Historical Genesis of Modern Business and Military Strategy, Keith Hoskin, Richard Macve, and John Stone9. Modernising Government: The Calculating Self, Hybridisation and Performance Measurement, Liisa Kurunmäki and Peter Miller10. Analytics of Costing System Design, Eva Labro11. Understanding Management Control Systems and Strategy, Kim Langfield-Smith12. Management Accounting, Operations and Network Relations: Debating the Lateral Dimension, Jan Mouritsen & Allan Hansen13. Trends in Budgetary Control and Responsibility Accounting, David Otley14. Making Management Accounting Intelligible, Hanno Roberts15. Changing Times: Management Accounting Research and Practice from a UK Perspective, Robert W. Scapens16. Strategic Cost Management: Upsizing, Downsizing, and Right(?)sizing, John K. Shank17. Environmental Management Accounting, Kazbi Soonawalla18. Organization Control and Management Accounting in Context: A Case Study of the U.S. Motion Picture Industry, S. Mark Young, Wim A. Van der Stede, and James J. Gong