Advances in management accounting. Vol.5, 1996 / edited by Marc J. Elpstein and Kay M. Poston.
By: Epstein, Marc J
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Contributor(s): Poston, Kay M.
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BookPublisher: London : JAI Press, 1997Description: xviii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 1559389923.Subject(s): Managerial accountingDDC classification: 658.1511 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658.1511 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00017595 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658.1511 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00017606 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This text is part of a series dedicated to the latest developments in management accounting and organizational effectiveness. This particular volume covers areas as diverse as target costing for product safety, Kaizen costing, the relationship between reliance on budgetary control and production subunit performance, and effects of role, empowerment and outcome seriousness.
Includes bibliographical references.
Target costing for product safety / Mohamed E. Bayou and Alan Reinstein -- Kaizen costing: its structure and cost management functions / John Y. Lee and Yasuhiro Monden -- The development and evolution of a comprehensive quality cost reporting system at the union pacific railroad company / Kay M. Poston -- Constructed cost determination under the 1994 Gatt antidumping code / Peter Chalos and Robert E. Weigand -- An examination of the relation between reliance on budgetary control and production subunit performance: the influence of manufacturing process automation and task uncertainty / Alan S. Dunk -- A further examination of factors affecting the variance investigation decision / Jeffrey Cohen and Laurence R. Paquette -- Initial attributions for failure to meet a goal: the effects of role, empowerment and outcome seriousness / Jack M. Ruhl and Ram S. Sriram -- The effects of participatory budgeting on both the attractiveness of budgetary compliance and motivation / Lynn Griffin -- Information relevance and conditions for activity-based costing systems in a new manufacturing environment / Eunsup Shim -- JIT manufacturing and inventory management: Industry-wide evidence / R. David Mautz, Jr. Janet B. Butler and Charles D. Mecimore -- Strategic value chain analysis: a case study in the casual furniture industry / Nancy Coulmas and Lizbeth A. Matz.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of contributors
- Editorial board
- AIMA Statement of Purpose
- Editorial policy and manuscript form guidelines
- Introduction
- Shifting perspectives: accounting, visibility, and management action
- Cost system research perspectives
- Operational planning and control with an activity-based costing system
- The effects of benchmarking and incentives on organizational performance: a test of two-way interaction
- Organizational control and work team empowerment: an empirical analysis
- Effects of uncertainty, participation, and control system monitoring on the propensity to create budget slack and actual budget slack created
- A management accounting taxonomy for the mass customization approach
- Top management involvement in R&D budget setting: the importance of financial factors, budget targets, and R&D performance evaluation
- A cross-national test of the role of self-interest on project continuation decisions
- Manager's adverse selection in resource allocation: a laboratory experiment
- Process innovation and adaptive institutional change strategies in management control systems: activity based costing as administrative innovation
- EDI adoption: controls in a changing environment