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Handbook of Management Accounting Research

  • 1st Edition, Volume 3 - December 8, 2008
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Anthony G. Hopwood, Christopher S. Chapman, Michael D. Shields
  • Language: English

Volume one of Handbook of Management Accounting Research sets the context for all three volumes in the series. Volume two provides insights into research on different manage… Read more

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Description

Volume one of Handbook of Management Accounting Research sets the context for all three volumes in the series. Volume two provides insights into research on different management accounting practices. This third and final volume features contributions from some of the most influential researchers in various areas of management accounting research, consolidates the content of volumes one and two, and concludes with examples of management accounting research from around the world.

Key features

  • Includes key topics such as performance measurement, balanced scorecard, incentives abd compensation schemes
  • Covers management accounting research on a global scale

Readership

Researchers in Managerial Accounting, Doctoral and Master students

Table of contents

Management Accounting Practices: Economics of Performance Measurement; Non-Financial Performance Measurement; Managerial Incentives and Compensation; Balanced Scorecard; Management Accountants (careers); Management Accountants (emegence in UK): Management Accounting Practice Contexts: Not for profit US; Management Accounting and Entrepreneurship; Entertainment; Hospitality; Accounting, Economic Reasoning; Transition economies; Financial Services. Managent Accounting around the World: Management Accounting Research in INdia; Management Accounting Research in South America.

Review quotes

"The Handbooks of Management Accounting Research represent an ambitious and important project to pull together the main streams of modern research in this vitally important area. Anyone who is interested in using management accounting theory to understand or improve practice should study these handbooks carefully."—Professor Robert Simons, Harvard Business School, USA

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 3
  • Published: December 22, 2008
  • Language: English

About the editors

AH

Anthony G. Hopwood

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University of Oxford, UK

CC

Christopher S. Chapman

Christopher Chapman, having previously researched the ways in which people work to make accounting relevant to operational decision making in a variety of contexts including restaurants and professional service firms, currently studies the design of cost systems for healthcare providers. He is an editor of "Accounting, Organizations and Society" and is the President of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

MS

Michael D. Shields

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

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