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Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: what are management control systems in Japanese companies?
2 Management control systems: definitions and development
3 Cost allocation systems: ABC versus Japanese cost accounting innovation
4 A challenge to better budgeting in Japanese companies
5 Management in decentralized Japanese companies
6 Balanced Scorecard versus the Japanese system
7 Performance measures: ROI, ROS, ROE, and EVA®
8 Management of advertising expenses in KAO
9 Transfer pricing in Mitsubishi Electric
10 Beyond budgeting or new budgeting? The case of Disco
11 Microprofit centers: amoeba system in Kyocera
12 The story of a comeback from bankruptcy: Japan Airlines
Index
Biography
Takashi Shimizu is Professor at the Graduate School of Accountancy, Waseda University, and President of the Tokyo Chapter of Institute of Management Accountants. He was a member of the Japan Certified Public Accountant Examination Committee from 2006 to 2008.
