Product Description

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, this book is clearly and accessibly written, covering all the major emerging topics in management accounting theory.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85114 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 568 pages

From the Back Cover

Management Accounting Change: Approaches and Perspectives by Danture Wickramasinghe and Chandana Alawattage

Management Accounting Change: Approaches and perspectives, an important new management accounting text, bridges the gap between technical, managerial, and theoretical perspectives in management accounting. The book discusses technical developments in management accounting from conventional cost accounting to contemporary strategic management accounting and beyond. Part I shows how conventional cost accounting techniques and management control models evolved in line with the development of mass production and bureaucracy. Part II discusses how recent developments such as customer and strategic orientations in business, flexible manufacturing, post-bureaucracy, network and virtual organisational technologies implicate in management accounting. The book also provides a number of alternative theories through which the transition of management accounting from mechanistic to post-mechanistic approaches can be explained. Part III and IV elaborate rational theories and interpretive/critical theorise, respectively.

This exciting text meets a desperate need for an advanced management accounting textbook that incorporates theory with practice that is accessible and engaging for all those studying in this challenging area.

About the Author

Danture Wickramasinghe (B.Sc., M.Com, M.Sc., Ph.D.) obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester where he also teaches management accounting and control. He has taught management and accounting in a number of universities over 20 years and has publications in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Financial management (UK), Advances in Public Interest Accounting, and Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change.

Chandana Alawattage (B.Sc., MBA., Ph.D.) obtained his PhD from Keele University and teaches management accounting at the University of Aberdeen Business School. He has taught management accounting and related subjects in a number of universities over 10 years and has publications in Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change and a number of conference proceedings in critical accounting.