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Management control systems : performance measurement, evaluation and incentives / Kenneth Merchant, Wim A. van der Stede.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2007.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 720 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780273708018 (pbk.) :
  • 9780273708018 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.1511 MER
LOC classification:
  • HF5657.4
Contents:
1.Management and control -- 2.Results controls -- 3.Action, personnel, and cultural controls -- 4.Control system tightness -- 5.control systems costs -- 6.Designing and evaluating management control systems -- 7.Financial responsiblity centers -- 8.Planning and budgeting -- 9.Incentive compensation systems -- 10.Financial performance measures and their effects -- 11.Combiantions of measures and other remedies to the myopia problem -- 12.Using financial results controls in the presence of uncontrollable factors -- 13.Corporate governance and Boards of Directors -- 14.Controllers and auditors -- 15.Management control-related ethical issues and analyses -- 16.The effects of environmental uncertainty, organizational strategy, and multinationality on management control systems -- 17.Management control in non-profit organizations.
Summary: The authors provide materials for a comprehensive course on management control systems (MCSs). The discussions in the text assume a basic level of knowledge of management accounting and core MCS elements.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 658.1511 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 206398
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 658.1511 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 204290

Previous ed.: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Management and control -- 2.Results controls -- 3.Action, personnel, and cultural controls -- 4.Control system tightness -- 5.control systems costs -- 6.Designing and evaluating management control systems -- 7.Financial responsiblity centers -- 8.Planning and budgeting -- 9.Incentive compensation systems -- 10.Financial performance measures and their effects -- 11.Combiantions of measures and other remedies to the myopia problem -- 12.Using financial results controls in the presence of uncontrollable factors -- 13.Corporate governance and Boards of Directors -- 14.Controllers and auditors -- 15.Management control-related ethical issues and analyses -- 16.The effects of environmental uncertainty, organizational strategy, and multinationality on management control systems -- 17.Management control in non-profit organizations.

The authors provide materials for a comprehensive course on management control systems (MCSs). The discussions in the text assume a basic level of knowledge of management accounting and core MCS elements.

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