1st Edition

Management Accounting Change Approaches and Perspectives

568 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

568 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

568 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Written by two experienced lecturers, this is the first student-centered textbook to bridge the technical and theoretical aspects of management accounting change. Packed full of pedagogical features, including mini-cases, learning outcomes, key terms, article summaries, key concept boxes, real-world cases, chapter summaries and further reading suggestions and resources, it is clear and accessibly... Read more

1. Management Accounting: Views, Approaches, Perspectives  Part 1: Mechanistic Approaches  2. Toward Mass Production and Bureaucracy  3. Towards Product Costing  4. Towards Cost Controls and Budgeting  5. Towards Management Controls  6. Towards Economic Models  Part 2: Post-Mechanistic Approaches  7. Towards Customer Orientation  8. Towards Flexible Manufacturing and Post-Bureaucracy  9. Towards Cost Management  10. Towards Strategic Management Accounting  11. Towards Management Accounting in New Organizations  Part 3: Rational Perspectives  12. Neoclassical Economic Theories of MACh  13. Contingency Theory of MACh  Part 4: Critical Perspectives  14. Naturalism in MACh  15. Political Economy of MACh  16. Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism in MACh

Biography

Danture Wickramasinghe (B.Sc., M.Com, M.Sc., Ph.D.) obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester where he also teaches management accounting and control. He has taught management and accounting in a number of universities over 20 years and has publications in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Financial management (UK), Advances in Public Interest Accounting, and Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change.

Chandana Alawattage (B.Sc., MBA., Ph.D.) obtained his PhD from Keele University and teaches management accounting at the University of Aberdeen Business School. He has taught management accounting and related subjects in a number of universities over 10 years and has publications in Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change and a number of conference proceedings in critical accounting.