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Management Accounting
What are the different ways in which we can understand the evolving character of SMA?
What are the major weaknesses in conventional management accounting in relation to strategic management accounting?
What roles should SMA play if it is to overcome weaknesses in conventional management accounting?
How do you compare salient features of conventional management accounting with SMA?
How do you understand SMA in relation to other functional management areas, especially marketing, operations and strategic management?
What directions could SMA take to expand its strategic interface?
What are the major strategic concerns and tools/concepts in accounting for corporate strategies?
What are the major strategic concerns and tools/concepts in accounting for market or competitive strategies?
What are the major strategic concerns and tools/concepts in accounting for manufacturing strategies?
How do you differentiate between corporate vision and mission?
What implications do the notions of vision and mission, as they are stated in corporate com- munications, have upon the traditional understanding of corporate objectives?
What do you understand by the term 'strategy' at corporate planning level and in the context of portfolio planning models?
What are the major dimensions that portfolio planning models consider in evaluating the relative strategic position of a corporate business portfolio? How are they measured in the BCG growth share
What informational demands are placed upon management accounting by portfolio planning models?
How do you define the term 'strategy' in relation to competitive strategies?
What are the major factors that determine a firm's capacity to gain and sustain a competitive advantage?
What generic strategies are available for a firm at the competitive level? Can you differentiate between them and discuss the management control implications of following each of them?
What strategic analyses are demanded by Porter's framework of competitive strategy?
What forces would determine the relative attractiveness of an industry?
What are the salient features of Porter's value-chain model of the firm?
What are the major weaknesses of a conventional PMS?
What role does a PMS play within a management control system?
How does the BSC attempt to overcome the weaknesses of a conventional PMS?
How would you compare a conventional PMS with a BSC?
What are the major criticisms levelled against the BSC?
In a globally competitive organization, everyone understands that long-term profitability is achieved by improving customer satisfaction, not by trying to sell the largest possible quantities of what
Corporate management accounting systems are inadequate for today's environment. In this time of rapid technological change, vigorous global and domestic competition, and enormously expanding
Strategic management accounting's defining characteristic is the management accounting interface with marketing management rather than strategy. When conceived in this way, strategic management
'What is important is not what a corporate vision should contain, or how corporate managers should go about creating one, but the type of transformation that the notion of vision exemplifies.'
"Though popular until the late 1980s, portfolio models never captured the "post-industrial" notion of strategy manifested in corporate vision and mission statements.' Discuss.
"The BSC is neither a novel nor a conceptually convincing model. Its popularity is gained not by its conceptual substance but by persuasive rhetoric in its promotion. The causality it assumes is
What are the main differences between nineteenth-century cost management and twentieth- century cost accounting?
As the terms are used in contemporary management accounting textbooks, what are the differences between 'cost accounting' and 'cost management'?
What are the main contributions to the development of contemporary cost management?
Describe the main steps in the development of an ABC/M programme.
Distinguish between the technical procedures in traditional absorption costing and ABC.
Why are activities more important than functions, business processes, actions and operations?
Define 'ABM'. Describe its operational and strategic dimensions.
What did mainstream academic researchers learn about the implementation of ABC/M programmes?
Outline the critical comments regarding ABC/M implementation.
How does ABC/M promote the post-mechanistic form?
'ABC is not only a costing technique but also a business enterprise in modern capitalism.' Discuss.
'The ABC "solution" creates more problems.' Discuss.
'ABC is not a problem, but the context is.' Is this true?
On ABC/M, some researchers are positive, others are critical. Why?
On the application of ABC, reflect on the lessons you learned from Marconi.
What is a new organization?
What are the main factors responsible for creating new organizations?
Why did bureaucratic organizations have problems?
How did managerial writers respond to the problems of the bureaucratic form?
What new imperatives did the new forms of organizations bring out?
What are the intra-organizational changes and their implications for new management controls and governance?
How did outsourcing bring new controls?
Why did supply chain management reject traditional control mechanisms?
What differences did network organizations make to inter-organizational controls?
Why did virtual organizations operate informally?
'New organizations is an incomplete project.' Discuss.
Can old problems still persist in new organizations?
Has bureaucracy been abandoned?
Can management accountants survive now?
Are accounting systems really changing?
Distinguish between the technical—managerial, pragmatic—interpretive and critical views of management accounting.
What is the difference between management accounting practice and management accounting theory?
Why is an emphasis on MACh important?
Describe briefly two different approaches to the practices of management accounting.
Distinguish between rational, interpretive and critical perspectives on MACh.
Is management accounting a branch of accounting?
Why does management accounting represent multiple views as opposed to a unitary and universal view?
Why is management accounting governed by some professional bodies?
If we ignore the MACh perspective, then what do you think are the problems of studying the subject properly?
To what extent are the perspectives covered in this chapter appropriate for studying change in any other discipline in management?
What are the basic principles of the method of historical dialectics? Can you briefly discuss them and elaborate on their interrelationship?
How can the method of historical dialectics be related to the understanding of management accounting change?
What are the social relations associated with production? Why is it important to define production encompassing these relations?
What were the major spheres of economic activities before the industrial revolution? What role did accounting play in the organization of these economic activities?
What were the salient features of craft production? How do you compare and contrast craft production with mass production?
What were the transitional processes involved in the transformation of craft production to mass production?
How did Taylorism, Fordism, bureaucracy and cost accounting contribute to the transfor- mation of craft production to mass production?
Can you discuss Johnson and Kaplan's 'relevance lost' thesis?
Can you elaborate on the labour process critique of the 'relevance lost' thesis?
Can you discuss major Foucauldian arguments on the evolution of cost accounting techniques?
'Cost accounting techniques evolved to facilitate the emergence of large corporate hierarchies by enhancing their efficiency over markets.' Discuss.
'Behind the evolution of management accounting during the early phase of capitalism lies the fundamental need of capital for real subordination of labour, rather than a search for technical
"The history of management accounting should be seen as the history of one of the central disciplinary techniques in industrial society which helped construct governable persons within and outside
'History of costing presents us with the present of costing.' Discuss.
'Cost allocation is a solution.' What is the problem?
Is costing a job of the accountant?
Does costing exist without an organization?
'Costing doesn't reveal but constructs costs.' How?
Why did Henry Rushton decide to look for costing methods?
Why do we define costing as a process?
How do we differentiate the technical process of costing from its social process?
What assumption do you think costing techniques underlie?
What is meant by a 'black-box' view of costing?
What are the ad hoc contributions to the development of costing?
What is the rationale behind the establishment of product costing within mass production?
Illustrate the meanings of cost categories for financial reporting and decision-making.
Distinguish between cost tracing and cost allocation.
Why is cost allocation more difficult than cost tracing?
Describe the calculative process of deriving 'total allocation'.
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