Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

These two volumes aim to present an overview of management accounting. Aspects covered include cost analysis for planning and decision making, purposes and paradigms of management accounting, the impact of automation on cost accounting and research into management control.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Volume I
• Part 1 Planning
• Introduction
• Background
• The search for gain in markets and firms: a review of the historical emergence of management accounting systems
• Management accounting: historical perspectives and challenges
• Purposes and paradigms of management accounting: beyond economic reductionism
• Sense-making of accounting data as a technique of organisational diagnosis
• Making sense of research into the organisational and social aspects of management accounting: a review of its underlying assumptions
• The process of change in management accounting: some field study evidence
• Impact of automation on cost accounting
• Managerial accounting in France: overview of past tradition and current practice
• Britain''s railways: the predominance of engineering over accountancy during the inter-war period
• Occupational role dimensions: the profession of management accounting
• Part 2 Cost Analysis for Planning and decision Making
• The costs and benefits of cost allocations
• Is cost allocation just?
• Cost accounting in manufacturing: dawn of a new era
• How cost accounting distorts product costs
• Management accounting education: a defense of criticisms
• Accounting for throughput
• Part I The theory
• Throughput
• Part II Practice
• Part 3 Activity Based Costing
• Activity-based information: a blueprint for world-class management accounting
• Activity-based systems: measuring the costs of resource usage
• A survey of activity-based costing in the UK''s largest companies
• An empirical analysis of firm''s implementation experiences with activity-based costing
• Implementing new knowledge: the case of activity-based costing
• Lost relevance: a note on the contribution of management accounting education
• Managing it all by numbers: a review of Johnson and Kaplan''s ''Relevance Lost''
• Part 4 Other Contemporary Approaches
• The contingency theory of management accounting: achievement and prognosis
• Management accounting systems and the economics of internal organisation
• Agency research in managerial accounting: a second look
• A tentative exploration into the amount and equivocality of information processing in organisational work units
• Human information processing, decision style theory and accounting information systems
• Index
• Volume II
• Part 1 Control: Introduction
• Management control
• Managerial accounting systems and organizational control: a role perspective
• A multiple paradigm approach to organizational control
• Research in management control: an overview of its development
• The measuring of organizational effectiveness: multiple domains and constituencies
• Part 2 Systems Designs
• Planning management control systems
• Designing an effective financial planning and control system
• Part 3 Budgeting
• Managerial roles and budgeting behaviour
• Budgetary participation motivation and managerial performance
• Part 4 Implementation
• A behavioral model for implementing cost management s