Modern management control systems : text and cases /

Merchant, Kenneth A

Modern management control systems : text and cases / by Kenneth A. Merchant - New Delhi: Pearson, 2004. - xiii,851p: ill;l 24 cm.

_contents:
SECTION 1: THE CONTROL FUNCTION OF MANAGEMENT;
chapter 1; management and control;
SECTION 2: CONTROL ALTERNATIVES AND THEIR EFFECTS;
chapter 2: action control;
chapter 3: results control;
chapter 4: personal and cultural control;
chapter 5: control tightness;
chapter 6: direct and indirect control systems;
chapter 7: designing and evaluating control system;
SECTION 3: FINANCIAL RESULTS CONTROL SYSTEM:
chapter 8: financial responsibility center :
chapter 9: planing and budgeting center:
chapter 10: financial performance system:
chapter 11: performance depending rewards:
SECTION 4: COMMON PROBLEM ARES IN FINANCIAL RESULTS CONTROL:
chapter 12: accounting performance measure and the myopia problem;
chapter 13: limitation of ROI performance measures;
chapter 14: using results control in the presence of uncontrollable factors:
chapter 15: the transfer pricing problem:
SECTION 5: IMPORTANT CONTROL ROLES AND ETHICAL ISSUES:
chapter 16: controllers ,auditors and board of directors:
chapter 17:management control - related ethical issues and analysis:
SECTION 6: SIGNIFICANT SITUATIONAL INFLUENCES ON MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM:
chapter 18: influence of uncertainty/programmability, diversification strategy, and business;
chapter 19:control in not-for-profit organization;
chapter 20: control in international and multinational corporation;
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