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Cases in management accounting : current practices in European companies / edited by Tom Groot and Karl Lukka.

Contributor(s): Groot, Tom | Lukka, Kari.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000Description: xvi, 336 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0273646168; 9780273646167.Subject(s): Managerial accounting -- Europe | Management accounting -- Europe -- Case studies | Finance and Accounting | Management accounting & bookkeepingDDC classification: 658.1511 GRO Summary: This text presents cases in management accounting with case studies for companies including Hewlett Packard, the Norwegian State Railway, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, the Volvo Car Corporation, Bass Brewers, and Credito Italiano Bank.
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The cases in this book are connected by the theme of accounting and change. This theme is explored in the introductory chapter, which also indicates the content of the chapters and helps to bring the cases together into a coherent whole.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text presents cases in management accounting with case studies for companies including Hewlett Packard, the Norwegian State Railway, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, the Volvo Car Corporation, Bass Brewers, and Credito Italiano Bank.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Decision Making
  • ABC-ABM at Hewlett-Packard Europe for Customer Support
  • ABC in Norwegian State Railways Passenger Transport
  • Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
  • Diamed
  • The Royal Hotel
  • Part 2 Customer Orientation
  • Cost Control in the Early Stages of Product Development
  • Development Over Time in Volvo Car Corporation
  • Wisapape: The Role of Management Accounting in Manager Customer Relationships
  • Introducing the Commercial Manage: Management Accounting Support for the Sales Function of Bass, Brewers, UK
  • Part 3 Performance Management
  • KCI Conecrane: Developing Non-financial Measures in a Global Crane Company
  • The Use of Incentives at the Credito Italiano Bank in Passing from a Protected to a Competitive Market
  • CSC Denmar: Controlling and Accounting for Time
  • The Customer Account Manager's Support System (CASS) at .Den Norske Bank Group
  • Part 4 Accounting And Organisational Change
  • A Case on the European Ferry Company in the Process of Privatization
  • Royal Mail (A): From State-bureaucracy to Commercial Provider of Services
  • Royal Mail (B): From Loss to Profit position
  • Ondina S.A.