Cases in Management
Accounting
Accounting courses
increasingly aim to give students a flavour of management accounting as it relates to the
business world. Case studies based on existing organizations are an excellent way to
introduce students to real-world management accounting issues. Cases in
Management Accounting includes cases of the very highest quality, which are based on
real companies and written by well known and respected academics from all over Europe.
This book will fill an obvious gap in the current management accounting literature.
Key Features
The cases have been developed
in culturally diverse businesses in Europe.
The cases are from a broad
base of European industries and organizations.
Each case portrays management
accounting in a broader organizational context.
Most of the cases contain
descriptions of organizational change.
The cases address novel
management accounting and management control issues.
Cases are authored by
established scholars and distinguished academics giving them credibility and ensuring they
are of the highest quality.
The introductory chapter
draws together the key issues in the book of accounting and change, and provides
guidance for the user of the book.
All cases are based on
existing companies and provide factual information, and most of them include the
real names of the case organizations.
Cases in
Management Accounting will appeal to undergraduate students, MBA students, those
taking professional examinations in accountancy as well as to professional accountants and
controllers.
The Editors: Tom Groot
is the Head of the Department of Accounting and a professor in Management Accounting at
the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He also is the Director of the Amsterdam Research
Centre in Accounting (ARCA). Kari Lukka is a professor of Accounting at the Turku
School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland, and specializes in
management accounting as well as in accounting theory and methodology. He also is the
Editor of The European Accounting Review.
336 pages