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Managerial Judgement and Strategic Investment Decisions
- 1st Edition - August 13, 2009
- Authors: Elaine Harris, Clive R. Emmanuel, Samuel Komakech
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 5 6 1 7 - 8 9 7 - 6
This book presents the findings from a cross-sectional survey funded by CIMA. The project aimed to survey senior management accountants working across a range of organisations and… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis book presents the findings from a cross-sectional survey funded by CIMA. The project aimed to survey senior management accountants working across a range of organisations and industries with a unique focus on the behavioural side of decision making, the use of managerial judgement. Previous capital budgeting surveys have tended to focus on the quantitative evaluation tools and techniques used for project appraisal. This study was broader in that it asked about every stage of the strategic investment decision (SID) process, from initiation to post implementation review, and how different managers were involved at different stages of the process. The focus is on how decision judgements are reached.
- Explains Strategic Investment Decisions (SIDs) clearly to management accountants who are expected to be involved in decision making processes
- Covers all stages of the SID process, the types of SID and how multiple managers participate in the process
- Will help organisations benchmark their own SID practice
Academics and students in the field of Managerial Judgement and SIDS. Practitioners in the field, especially those being introduced to the subject area for the first time. Trainee accountants and recently qualified accountants (this report was recommended as a mandatory reading to these two groups by one of the reviewers)
1. Strategic Investment Decisions (SIDs): Introduction; explanation of context; the stages of SID process; the types of SID; multiple manager participation in the process; the role of managerial judgement in SIDs
2. Managerial Judgement: Managers’ strategic cognition and psychological concepts; Heuristics; Framing of propositions; Collective decision making and socio-political process; Consensus
3. Survey Design: The analytic survey questionnaire; The sample and distribution of the questionnaire; Respondents; Data analysis
4. Survey Analysis; Respondent profiles; Types of SID; Stages in the SID process; Nature of the SID process; Managerial involvement; Psychological and group processes
5. Summary of Findings and Implications: Summary of main findings; Implications for management accounting literature; Implications for management accountants; Implications for management of organizations; Implications for stakeholders in organizations
Appendix 1 Questionnaire
Appendix 2 Summary of survey responses
Appendix 3 Further statistical tables
Appendix 4 Case Studies
2. Managerial Judgement: Managers’ strategic cognition and psychological concepts; Heuristics; Framing of propositions; Collective decision making and socio-political process; Consensus
3. Survey Design: The analytic survey questionnaire; The sample and distribution of the questionnaire; Respondents; Data analysis
4. Survey Analysis; Respondent profiles; Types of SID; Stages in the SID process; Nature of the SID process; Managerial involvement; Psychological and group processes
5. Summary of Findings and Implications: Summary of main findings; Implications for management accounting literature; Implications for management accountants; Implications for management of organizations; Implications for stakeholders in organizations
Appendix 1 Questionnaire
Appendix 2 Summary of survey responses
Appendix 3 Further statistical tables
Appendix 4 Case Studies
- No. of pages: 128
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 13, 2009
- Imprint: CIMA Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9781856178976
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Elaine Harris
Professor Elaine P Harris is Professor and Head of Department of Accounting and Finance and Head of Leicester Business School’s Graduate Centre at De Montfort University. She is currently Chair of the Committee of Heads of Accounting (CHA), and a member of CIMA’s Education Board. Her research interests are in project risk assessment and decision making. She is guest editor of the International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management and managing editor (special issues) of The Journal of Applied Accounting Research.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Head of Department of Accounting and Finance and Head of Leicester Business School’s Graduate Centre at De Montfort UniversityCE
Clive R. Emmanuel
Professor Clive R. Emmanuel is Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Glasgow. He is currently joint editor of the British Accounting Review.
His research interests are in management control, transfer pricing, and capital budgeting. He has published extensively in UK and international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Accounting and Finance, University of GlasgowSK
Samuel Komakech
Samuel Komakech is Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at De Montfort University and worked as the research assistant on this CIMA-funded project, while studying for his PhD. He has worked in Uganda as a tax consultant for KPMG and teaches management accounting. His research interests are in activity based costing and capital budgeting.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at De Montfort University