Management Accounting Change

<p>Written by two experienced lecturers this is the first student-centered textbook to bridge the technical and theoretical aspects of management accounting change. Packed full of pedagogical features including mini-cases learning outcomes key terms article summaries key concept boxes real-world cases chapter summaries and further reading suggestions and resources it is clear and accessibly written covering all the major emerging topics in management accounting theory.</p><p>Discussing technical developments in management accounting from conventional cost accounting to contemporary strategic management accounting and beyond in four parts it:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>shows how conventional cost accounting techniques and management control models evolved in line with the development of mass production and bureaucracy</li> <li>explores how recent developments such as customer and strategic orientations in business flexible manufacturing post-bureaucracy network and virtual organizational technologies implicate in management accounting</li> <li>provides a number of alternative theories through which the transition of management accounting from mechanistic to post-mechanistic approaches can be explained – elaborating both rational and interpretive/critical theories. </li> </ul><p>This excellent text meets a desperate need for an advanced management accounting textbook that incorporates theory and practice and is accessible and engaging for all those studying in this challenging area.</p>