Management control systems: performance measurement, evaluation and incentives
As the market-leading text for Management Control and performance measurement, this book 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.
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- Full title :Management control systems : performance measurement, evaluation and incentives / Kenneth A. Merchant, University of Southern California, Wim A. Van der Stede, London School of Economics.
Summary
As the market-leading text for Management Control and performance measurement, this book 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.
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- Publication Date:2017
- Edition:Fourth edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Pearson
- Place of Publication:Harlow, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017
Notes
Revised edition of the authors' Management control systems, 2012.
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 773 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781292110554, 1292110554
- oclc:ocn965154191
- LC Classification:HD31
- Dewey Decimal:658
Table of Contents
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The control function of management -- Management and control -- Management control alternatives and their effects -- Results controls -- Action, personnel, and cultural controls -- Control system tightness -- Control system costs -- Designing and evaluating management control systems -- Financial results control systems -- Financial responsibility centers -- Planning and budgeting -- Incentive systems -- Performance measurement issues and their effects -- Financial performance measures and their effects -- Remedies to the myopia problem -- Using financial results controls in the presence of uncontrollable factors -- Corporate governance, important control-related roles, and ethics -- Corporate governance and boards of directors -- Controllers and auditors -- Management control-related ethical issues -- Management control when financial results are not the primary consideration -- Management control in not-for-profit organizations -- Index.
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