Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting

Alnoor Bhimani is Reader in Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics. He holds a BSc from King's College London, an MBA from Cornell University and a PhD from LSE. He is also a Certified Management Accountant (Canada). He has co-authored a number of books including Management Accounting: Evolution not Revolution (CIMA, 1989), Management Accounting: Pathways to Progress (CIMA, 1994) and Management and Cost Accounting (Prentice Hall, 2005). Al has also edited Management Accounting: European Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Management Accounting in the Digital Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003). He has written numerous articles in scholarly publications and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He has undertaken management accounting related fieldwork in a variety of global enterprises and has presented his research to corporate executives and academic audiences in Europe, Asia and North America.

• Foreword ; Preface ; 1. New Measures in Performance Management ; 2. Analysis of Managerial Accounting Issues ; 3. Reframing Management Accounting Practice: A Diversity of Perspectives ; 4. Management Accounting and Digitization ; 5. The Contingent Design of Performance Measures ; 6. Integrated Cost Management ; 7. Capital Bugeting and Informational Impediments: A Management Accounting Perspective ; 8. Accounting and Strategy: Towards Understanding the Historical Genesis of Modern Business and Military Strategy ; 9. Modernising Government: The Calculating Self, Hybridisation and Performance Measurement ; 10. Analytics of Costing System Design ; 11. Understanding Management Control Systems and Strategy ; 12. Management Accounting, Operations and Network Relations: Debating the Lateral Dimension ; 13. Trends in Budgetary Control and Responsibility Accounting ; 14. Making Management Accounting Intelligible ; 15. Changing Times: Management Accounting Research and Practice from a UK Perspective ; 16. Strategic Cost Management: Upsizing, Downsizing, and Right(?)sizing ; 17. Environmental Management Accounting ; 18. Organization Control and Management Accounting in Context: A Case Study of the U.S. Motion Picture Industry