1st Edition

The Role of the Management Accountant Local Variations and Global Influences

Edited By Lukas Goretzki, Erik Strauss Copyright 2018
348 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

There is considerable national variation in the professionalization and status of the management accountant. Although researchers from different countries have contributed to our knowledge about tasks and roles, we have limited insights into the development, education, and socio-cultural influences in different countries and surprisingly little is known about the local and national contexts in... Read more

Table of Contents





Part A



Chapter 1 Lukas Goretzki & Erik Strauss: Introduction





Part B



Chapter 2 Vitor Hugo Klein Junior & Artur Roberto do Nascimento: The role of the controller in Brazil: Historical Origins, Key Functions and Challenges



Chapter 3 Sophie Tessier & Samuel Sponem: The evolution of management accounting in Canada



Chapter 4 Jizhang Huang, Tsuilin Kuo, Fei Pan & Anne Wu: Management Accountants in Mainland China and Taiwan



Chapter 5 Caroline Lambert & Jérémy Morales: Management accountants in France: a range of fragile, open-ended positionings



Chapter 6 Utz Schäffer & Jürgen Weber: The role of the controller in Germany



Chapter 7 Prem Lal Joshi, Usha Rani Cherukupallis & Nachiket Vechalekar: The Changing Role of Management Accountants: An Indian Perspective



Chapter 8 Laura Zoni: Management accountants in Italy: economic, institutional and educational environment, and evidence from the job market



Chapter 9 Masafumi Fujino: Management accountants in Japan



Chapter 10 Sergey Falko: Management accountants in Russia: Theoretical and practical aspects



Chapter 11 Philippus L. Wessels & Leon P. Steenkamp: An assessment of the current state of the management accounting profession in South Africa



Chapter 12 Liz Warren & John Burns: The Role of the Management Accountant in the UK



Chapter 13 Kip Krumwiede & Raef Lawson: Management Accountants in the United States: Evolving to Meet the Changing Needs of Practice





Part C



Chapter 14 Albrecht Becker & Rafael Heinzelmann: IT and the management accountant



Chapter 15 Will Seal: Agent or victim? Shared services and management accounting



Chapter 16 Alan J. Richardson: The r

Biography





Lukas Goretzki is currently an Assistant Professor of management control at the University of Innsbruck. His main research interests and publications (e.g. in European Accounting Review, Management Accounting Research or Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management) are on management accountants’ roles, budgeting, and performance evaluation.





Erik Strauss is a Professor of management accounting and control at the Witten/Herdecke University. His main research interests and publications are on the roles of management control systems, management accounting change, influence of technology on management accounting and management accountants.