Management Control Systems: European Edition - Robert N Anthony

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Résumé :
Management Control Systems helps students to develop the insight and analytical skills required from today's managers.Students uncover how real-world managers design and use planning and control systems to implement businessstrategies. This first European Edition is an adaptation of the market leading text Management Control Systems byAnthony and Govindarajan and is aimed specifically at international students to offer a wealth of diverse analytical cases,balanced with current content and international examples.

Biographie:
Robert N. Anthony is the Ross Graham Walker Professor Emeritus of Management Control at Harvard Business School. Professor Anthony has been a director of Carborundum Company and Warnaco, Inc., both Fortune 500 companies; for 25 years he has been a trustee of Colby College, including five years as chairman of the board. He has consulted for many companies and government agencies, including General Motors Corp., AT&T, the General Accounting Office, and the Cost Accounting Standards Board. Among Professor Anthonys awards are the Distinguished Accounting Educator of the Year Award from AAA, Accounting Educator of the Year Award from Beta Alpha Psi, the Meritorious Service Award from the Executive Office of the President, the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Department of Defense, Comptroller Generals Award of the U.S. General Accounting Office and Distinguished Service Award of the Harvard Business School Association.

Sommaire:

Part 1: Management Control and Management Control Systems
Introduction to Management Control
Designing Management Control Systems

Part 2: The Environment and Strategy of Organizations
Organizations and Their Environment
Strategy and Management Control

Part 3: Management Control and the Organization's Internal Structure
Decentralization, Control and Incentives
Responsibility Centres: Revenue and Expense Centres
Responsibility Centres: Profit and Investment Centres
Transfer Pricing, Shared Service Centres and Cross-Functional Management

Part 4: The Management Control Process
Planning and Budgeting
Performance Measurement and Analysis
Compensation, Incentives and Motivation

Part 5: Variations in Management Control
Management Control Challenges in Service Delivery
Management Control of Projects
Management Control and Inter-Organizational Relationships