Ebook: Management Accounting: Retrospect and Prospect

This book is part of the celebrations to mark CIMA's 90th anniversary in 2009. It looks at the development of cost and management accounting from the founding of the Institute to today. It considers a number of immediate challenges to management accountants and surveys a range of issues and challenges that will likely affect management accounting thought and practice in the future. The authors examine the possibilities for accountants to widen their focus and become more familiar with the enterprise technology determining their organisations' cost structures and with the effects of multiple. Read more... Front Cover; Management Accounting: retrospect and prospect; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; Executive Summary; Chapter 1 Management Accounting: Past and Present; Chapter 2 Costs: Modern, Future and Strategic; Chapter 3 Flexible Technologies, Fluid Organisations and Digitisation; Chapter 4 Cost Co-creation and Globalisation; Chapter 5 The Rising Tide of Change in Management Accounting; References; Index