Contemporary Management Accounting Practices and Managerial Performance Amongst the Malaysian Co-operatives Sector

The Impact of Management Control Systems on Contemporary Management Accounting Practices in the Public Sector

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the interactive and diagnostic use of management control systems on the adoption and success of contemporary management accounting practices in the public sector. Contemporary management accounting practices includes: benchmarking, activity-based costing, the balanced scorecard, value chain analysis, total quality management, key perform...

Productivity and Performance Management – Managerial Practices in the Construction Industry

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the meanings of different terms related to productivity and to analyze the state of productivity in the Finnish construction industry at the macro level. This study reviews literature related to productivity and performance management; its aim is to form an understanding of prevailing habits and shortcomings. Based on a conducted macro level analysis, the...

A Performance Measurement Case for Managerial Accounting

This instructional case is designed to develop students’ understanding of strategic performance measurement concepts. Case requirements ask students to interpret operating results, evaluate a current performance measurement system, and then construct a balanced scorecard for the company described in the fictitious case narrative. The case is appropriate for MBA and upperlevel undergraduate acco...

Management Accounting Practices and Assemblages

The roles of accounting in shaping the economy are currently being rediscovered by This recent revival of interest in accounting marks a further stage in a curious pattern of alternate attention and neglect on the part of sociologists towards the practices that make the economy visible and measurable qua economy. This paper reviews the different ways in which accounting has been given a wider s...

Network Management Practices and Sector Performance A Genetic Programming Approach