Bruce Bowhill

Business Planning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Business Planning and Control: Integrating Strategy, Accounting and People starts with an introduction to core areas of management accounting and business planning. It explores relationships between strategy, management accounting information, and the design of control systems, taking into account the needs of both people and organizations.

FEATURES:
_ Provides an integrative approach to business planning and control
_ Includes a specific focus on the design of planning and control systems
_ Considers key techniques of long-range business planning
_ Uses management accounting techniques for operational, managerial and strategic purposes
_ Provides case study information to form a thematic thread throughout the text.

Business Planning and Control is an indispensable text for undergraduate students taking management accounting modules and for postgraduate students who need an understanding of the fundamentals of business planning. Practising managers will also find this book provides an alternative to many traditional management accounting and business planning texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14506177000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1140g
• ISBN-13: 9780470061770
• ISBN-10: 0470061774
• Artikelnr.: 23132624

Autorenporträt

Bruce Bowhill is Principal Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Accounting Programmes at Portsmouth Business School. Having worked in both service and manufacturing organizations, he is particularly interested in the role of accounting information in organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

Part one - Information for decision making and financial reporting
requirements Cost behaviour and contribution Pricing and costing in a
competitive environment Further decision-making problems Capital investment
decisions Traditional approaches to full costing Activity based costing
Part two - Traditional accounting controls Budgetary control systems
Preparing the master budgets Standard costing and manufacturing methods
Control in divisionalized organizations Control using accounting ratios
Funding the business Part three - Strategic management Objectives, strategy
and influences Strategic analysis - the exterial environment Internal
appraisal of the organisation Accounting and strategic analysis Identifying
suitable strategic options Evaluating strategies and writing the business
plan Part four - Issues in management control Budgetary control,
performance management and alternative approaches to control Strategy and
control system design Measuring shareholder value Measuring and improving
internal business processes Complexity, uncertainty and control Indicative
answers to questions Case information Appendix - Present value table
Glossary References Index