1st Edition

The Marketing / Accounting Interface

Edited By Robin Roslender, Richard M.S. Wilson Copyright 2012
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

When marketing managers and financial managers join forces within any business, the result can often be poor communication on financial criteria and goals. The risk of this situation occurring is inevitably present when those with different professional backgrounds and roles are working in accordance with their own norms. In his seminal 1956 paper on general systems theory, the economist... Read more

1. Introduction: The marketing / accounting interface Robin Roslender & Richard M.S. Wilson

2. The marketing accounting interface – lessons and limitations Baljit K. Sidhu & John H. Roberts

3. Exploring accounting and market orientation: an interfunctional case study Robert M. Inglis

4. The recognition and measurement of brand assets: an exploration of the accounting/marketing interface Nevine El-Tawy & Tony Tollington

5. Assessing marketing performance: don't settle for a silver metric Tim Ambler & John H. Roberts

6. Marketing/accounting synergy: a discussion of its potential and evidence in e-business planning Paul Phillips & Sue Vaux Halliday

7. Exploring the potential of customer accounting: a synthesis of the accounting and marketing literatures Lisa McManus & Chris Guilding

8. Examining the theoretical influences of customer valuation metrics Kenneth Weir

9. Accounting is from Mars, marketing is from Venus: establishing common ground for the concept of customer profitability Robin Gleaves, Jamie Burton, Jan Kitshoff, Ken Bates & Mark Whittington

10. Determining the indirect value of a customer Lynette Ryals

11. The marketing / accounting synergy: a final word but certainly not the last word Robin Roslender & Richard M.S. Wilson

Biography

Robin Roslender is Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Dundee, UK, where he is also Director of Research in the School of Business. He pursues research interests in both mainstream and critical accounting, with most of his contributions in the field of managerial accounting. His work at the marketing/accounting interface dates back to the mid 1990s. Since 2008 he has been the Editor of the Journal of Human Resource Costing and Accounting.

Richard M.S. Wilson is Professor of Business Administration and Financial Management (Emeritus) at Loughborough University, UK. He holds degrees and professional qualifications in both marketing and accounting, has held academic and commercial appointments in each of these subject areas, and has published extensively on their interface as well as in the fields of marketing and accounting more broadly. He is the founding Editor of Accounting Education: an international journal (of which he is currently Editor-in-Chief).