Successful Foreign Acquisitions
The Pivotal Role of the Management Accountant
- 1st Edition - October 20, 2003
- Authors: Tony Appleyard, Simon Pallett
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 6 1 7 2 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 8 9 7 6 - 6
Successful Foreign Acquisitions investigates two cross-border acquisitions with the aim of looking at the role of management accounting in the process and drawing useful lesson… Read more
Successful Foreign Acquisitions investigates two cross-border acquisitions with the aim of looking at the role of management accounting in the process and drawing useful lessons about the acquistion and integration process for practioners.
The authors:
*identify the acquisition strategy and examine its added value
*evaluate the strategy in both cultural and economic terms
*consider the required management control systems needed to implement the strategy and compare this with the actual control systems used
* review what performance measures would be needed to encourage managers to deliver and compare these with the actual measures introduced
* consider how environmental and cultural differences impact on this process
The authors:
*identify the acquisition strategy and examine its added value
*evaluate the strategy in both cultural and economic terms
*consider the required management control systems needed to implement the strategy and compare this with the actual control systems used
* review what performance measures would be needed to encourage managers to deliver and compare these with the actual measures introduced
* consider how environmental and cultural differences impact on this process
Accountants; management; CFOs; CEOs
Introduction; Literature review- Anglo-German Differences; Literature Review- The Acquisition Process; The Research Framework; Case Study One- UK Parent and German Subsidiary; Case Study Two- German Parent and UK Subsidiary; Discussion and Conclusions; Lessons to be Learned from Case Studies; Appendicies.
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 20, 2003
- Language: English