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years issues of strategic management accounting have received widespread attention in the accounting literature. Adapting to the changing needs of business in the 1990's is one of the main challenges facing management accountants today. One dramatic…

Woolworths Financial Report; it focuses on its 2002 operating performance. By means of calculating and analyzing the major financial ratios in profitability, asset utilization, liquidity and debt utilization, and comparing them with those in the previous…

is North America's leading maker of telecom equipment and software, including switching and transmission equipment and business communications systems. Lucent Technologies, started trading publicly in 1996 with an initial public offering that…

and employers in the past few years. Employees see it as a way to avoid rush hour traffic, long commutes, and saving on mileage, fuel and child care costs. Employers prefer telecommuting because it increases productivity and saves office space.…

enough government oversight of corporate finances. The attached report recommends that all companies be required to implement fraud prevention programs, be audited using a new approach to detect material fraud, have a fraud specialist participate…

Tobacco Company" case study found in the 2nd edition of " Accounting for Managers: Texts and Cases". The primary accounting issue in this case is revenue recognition and questions relating to trade loading will be discussed and evaluated.…

Shurtleff, Inc.: Planning and Control System" case study found in the 2nd edition of " Accounting for Managers: Texts and Cases". The case illustrates a comprehensive formal planning and control system used in formulating and implementing strategy…

were focusing exclusively on financial measurements such as return on investment and earnings per share to run their businesses, Robert Kaplan and David Norton introduced the concept of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in 1992. While these metrics are…

to accomplish with the Account Management System? Are these sensible goals? Why or why not? The motivation for Carl-Erik Ridderstrale, president of Kanthal, to develop an Account Management System was to find a process of determining the profitability…

A Summary of Goldratt's Argument During the 1970's Eli Goldratt developed a new approach to production management which he called Optimised Production Technology (OPT). This approach provided a logical analysis of manufacturing issues and argued…