Cases in Management Accounting: Current Practices in European Companies - Softcover

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Cases in Management Accounting
Current Practices in European Companies
Editors
Tom Groot and Kari Lukka


Accounting courses increasingly aim to give students a flavour of management accounting as it relates to the business world. Case studies based on existing organisations are an excellent way to introduce students to real-world management accounting issues. Cases in Management Accounting includes cases of the very highest quality, which are based on real companies and written by well known and respected academics from all over Europe. This book will fill an obvious gap in the current management accounting literature.

Key Features

· The cases have been developed in culturally diverse businesses in Europe.
· The cases are from a broad base of European industries and organisations.
· Each case portrays management accounting in a broader organisational context.
· Most of the cases contain descriptions of organisational change.
· The cases address novel management accounting and management control issues.
· Cases are authored by established scholars and distinguished academics giving them credibility and ensuring they are of the highest quality.
· The introductory chapter draws together the key issues in the book of accounting and change, and provides guidance for the user of the book.
· All cases are based on existing companies and provide factual information, and most of them include the real names of the case organisations, etc.

Cases in Management Accounting will appeal to undergraduate students, MBA students, those taking professional examinations in accountancy as well as to professional accountants.

The Editors

Tom Groot is the Head of the Department of Accounting and a professor in Management Accounting at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He also is the Director of the Amsterdam Research Centre in Accounting (ARCA).

Kari Lukka is a professor of Accounting at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland, and specialises in management accounting as well as in accounting theory and methodology. He also is the Editor of The European Accounting Review.