Handbook Of Management Accounting Research: Volume 2 Hardcover

Christopher S. Chapman

Volume one of Handbook of Management Accounting Research sets the context for all three volumes in the series. Volume two provides insights into research on different management accounting practices. This third and final volume features contributions from some of the most influential researchers in various areas of management accounting research, consolidates the content of volumes one and two, and concludes with examples of management accounting research from around the world.

9780080554501

English

Elsevier Science & Technology

22 December 2008

280

Christopher Chapman, having previously researched the ways in which people work to make accounting relevant to operational decision making in a variety of contexts including restaurants and professional service firms, currently studies the design of cost systems for healthcare providers.He is an editor of "Accounting, Organizations and Society" and is the President of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management

The Handbooks of Management Accounting Research represent an ambitious and important project to pull together the main streams of modern research in this vitally important area. Anyone who is interested in using management accounting theory to understand or improve practice should study these handbooks carefully. - Professor Roberts Simons, Harvard Business School, USA