This new edition by highly respected author-team Kim Langfield-Smith and Helen Thorne
explains the contemporary role of management accounting in organisations - supporting a
company's quest for enhancing shareholder and customer value. The effective management of
resources, both financial and non-financial, is essential to creating value. Management
Accounting 4e retains its strategic approach, a clear writing style, and a wealth of
Australian and regional cases and 'real life' examples of management accounting practices
in the workplace. This text is sutiable for the one- or two-semester undergraduate course,
as well as the MBA management accounting course.
Author Biography
HELEN THORNE Helen is Professor of Management and Head of the
International Graduate School of Management at the University of South Australia.
Previously she has held appointments in the Graduate School of Management and the Commerce
Department at the University of Adelaide. She has a BEc and DipAcc from Flinders
University, and a PhD from Adelaide University. Her research focuses on contemporary
approaches to management accounting, including activity-based costing and strategic
performance measurement systems, and she has published in refereed journals in these
areas, including Journal of Cost Management, Advances in Management Accounting and
Australian Accounting Review. Before commencing her academic career, Helen worked as a
management accountant with a major international company. Since then she has maintained
her interests in the `real world'. She is an active member of CPA Australia and has
undertaken consulting work in management accounting for a number of organisations in
manufacturing and service industries.
KIM LANGFIELD-SMITH Kim is Professor of Management Accounting in the
Department of Accounting and Finance at Monash University, Australia. Prior appointments
were at La Trobe University, and the Universities of Melbourne and Tasmania. Prior to
entering academic life she worked as an accountant in several commercial organisations.
Kim has a BEc from the University of Sydney in accounting, a MEc from Macquarie
University, a PhD from Monash University and is a fellow of CPA Australia. Kim's research
interests are in the area of management control systems. Current research topics include
the adoption and implementation of innovative performance measurement systems, control
implications of e-procurement systems, and behavioural aspects of management accounting
systems. She has published articles in referred journals in both the accounting and
management fields, including Accounting, Organisations and Society, Management Accounting
Research, Human Factors, Journal of Management Studies and Australian Journal of
Management. Kim sits on several editorial boards, and is an Associate Editor of Accounting
and Finance. Kim was President (Australia) of the Accounting Association of Australia and
New Zealand (AAANZ) from 1999 to 2001, and is currently Associate Director Victoria of
Insite Connect (formerly ACMAD).
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