Archive for May, 2017

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Goals gone wild (and hitting back) at Wells Fargo

by João on May 29, 2017 at 8:00 am
Posted In: Ch 16 - Performance Measurement: theories and principles

Buy our book here. The scandal around Wells Fargo’s opening of fake accounts continues to evolve. Last year, news emerged that bank employees opened up to 2 millions of bank and credit card accounts without getting customers’ authorization. And the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Viewing management accounting change as ongoing processes

by John on May 17, 2017 at 6:37 pm
Posted In: Ch 22 - Management Accounting Change (Implementation), Ch1 - changing contexts, General management accounting

Buy our book here. Most of the literature on management accounting (MA), both practitioner-oriented and academic literature, views ‘change’ rather as a means to an end, with emphasis on the ‘end’. The majority of business schools also teach MA change […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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New public management and management accounting

by John on May 3, 2017 at 2:06 pm
Posted In: Ch 22 - Management Accounting Change (Implementation), Ch1 - changing contexts, General management accounting

Buy our book here. New public management (NPM) is a bundle of management tools and techniques adopted within a public sector organisation, which together are aimed at emulating the ‘best’ practices of big, private-sector business enterprises. In particular, NPM aims […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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