The Balanced Scorecard

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management Corporate Governance grade: 17 Linnaeus University (-) course: Management Accounting language: English abstract: Ericsson operating in four major segments providing communication networks services multimedia solutions and mobile phones has become a multinational cooperation. Despite its traditional roots emphasize lays on quality innovation and sustainability. Due to its large size it has become vital to find a management system everyone is able to participate in on the one hand and which properly and timely monitors success and failure on the other hand. This Case explains the Balanced Scorecard a performance measurement system which includes four different perspectives the Financial Perspective the Customer Perspective the Internal Perspective and the Innovation and Human Perspective. These perspectives are implemented into the strategy of a company.