Handbook of Management Accounting Research

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 Robert Simons, Harvard Business School, USA

• Management Accounting Practices: Economics of Performance Measurement; Non-Financial Performance Measurement; Managerial Incentives and Compensation; Balanced Scorecard; Management Accountants (careers); Management Accountants (emegence in UK): Management Accounting Practice Contexts: Not for profit US; Management Accounting and Entrepreneurship; Entertainment; Hospitality; Accounting, Economic Reasoning; Transition economies; Financial Services. Managent Accounting around the World: Management Accounting Research in INdia; Management Accounting Research in South America.