Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (May 15, 2017) © 2017

  • Kenneth Merchant University of Southern California
  • Wim Van der Stede London School of Economics

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Management Control Systems
Published 2017

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  • PART I: The Control function of Management
  • 1   Management and Control
  • PART II: Management Control alternatives and their effects
  • 2   Results Controls
  • 3   Action, Personnel, and Cultural Controls
  • 4   Control System Tightness
  • 5   Control System Costs
  •  6   Designing and Evaluating Management Control Systems
  • PART III: Financial Results Control Systems
  • 7   Financial Responsibility Centers
  • 8   Planning and Budgeting
  • 9   Incentive Systems
  • PART IV: Performance measurement issues and their effects
  • 10    Financial Performance Measures and their Effects
  • 11    Combinations of Measures and Other Remedies to the Myopia Problem
  • 12    Using Financial Results Control in the Presence of Uncontrollable Factors  
  • PART V: Corporate Governance, Important Control-related roles and Ethics
  • 13    Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors
  • 14    Controllers and Auditors
  • 15    Management Control-Related Ethical Issues and Analyses  
  • PART VI: Significant Situational influences on management control systems
  • 16    Management Control in Non-Profit Organizations
  • Index

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