"Management Control Systems" helps students to develop the insight and analytical skills required of today's managers. Students uncover how real-world managers design, implement, and use planning and control systems to implement business strategies. The 12th edition builds on the strengths of prior editions by offering a rich diversity of cases balanced with current content and research..
The manager of the used car sales department, Amy Robbins, examined the trade-in vehicle. The trade-in had a wholesale guidebook value of $3,500. The guidebook, published monthly, was, at best, a near estimate of liquidation value.
Management Control Systems A Managerial Emphasis
The President of Quaker Oats , Robert D. Stuart , Jr. , and W. Fenton Guinee , Senior Vice President of Planning and Finance , have developed expectations regarding the formal planning system . The case summarizes planning efforts to ...
The book posits and discusses the features of a core control system and its component parts, including: planning, measurement and feedback, evaluation and reward sub-systems.
These characteristics of information can be related to the context of the areas of decision , namely , strategic planning management control and operational control . Since strategic decisions fall under the category of unprogrammed ...
First published in 1998, this volume of readings provides an overview of the development of the study of Management Control theory over the past 35 years.
Primarily designed for the postgraduate students of management and commerce, this book would also be a valuable source of reference for professionals.
This is a ground breaking, conceptual analysis which should revolutionize our thinking and teaching of management accounting and control systems.” David J Cooper University of Alberta, Canada “Macintosh and Quattrone’s text delivers a ...
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Capturing the complex real world that managers face when using MCS, this book presents a rich and diverse selection of recent, actual cases, addressing both the problems confronting those companies and the solutions they devised.