Management accounting and control systems: an organizational and sociological approach

This book is about the design and working of management accounting and control from an organizational and sociological perspective. It focuses on how control systems are used to influence, motivate, and control what people do in organizations. The second edition of the book takes into account the need for a general update of the content and a change in the structure of the original text, and some of the comments received by the external reviewers The new edition is organised into four thematic parts which seek to illustrate, respectively: the nature of Management Accounting and Control Systems (MACS), how and why these change, their function and use in practice, and how they are related to general issues of governance in contemporary organisations, economies and society. In terms of contents, the new edition will include new cases and will draw on and add new theoretical perspectives in order to make the product more in tune with current practices, teaching needs and academic developments.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-71447-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 02/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés