Management Accounting in Support of Strategy

Management Accounting in Support of StrategyManagement Accounting in Support of StrategyManagement Accounting in Support of Strategy

Management Accounting in Support of Strategy

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      • CVP (Breakeven) analysis
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      • HW plc Case Study
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      • CIMA article by G Pitcher
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    • Strategic management
    • PESTEL analysis
    • Industry analysis
    • Porter's Diamond
    • Competitive strategies
    • Resource audit - 9 Ms
    • Customer profitability
    • Portfolio analysis (BCG)
    • Stakeholder analysis
    • Value creation system
    • Performance management
    • SWOT and GAP analysis
    • Competitor analysis
    • Growth strategies
    • Benchmarking
    • Target costing
    • Product lifecycle
    • Cost of quality
    • Activity-Based Costing
    • CVP (Breakeven) analysis
    • Contrib limiting factor
  • MASS Food for thought
    • On Strategy & Mgt Acc.
    • On Environment Analysis
  • Educational case studies
    • Sustainable restaurants
    • HW plc Case Study
    • Postgraduate case studies
  • Articles
    • CIMA article by G Pitcher
    • MASS/Strategy as practice
    • Taking a customer focus
    • Life Cycle Costing
  • Articles PDFs
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FREE BOOK - Strategy and Management Accounting

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Contents page of Strategy and management accounting - see what's covered

Contents page of Strategy and management accounting - see what's covered

Strategy and Management Accounting provides comprehensive coverage of the standard strategy models and frameworks and strategic management accounting techniques. It includes hints for active reading, links to explanatory videos, learning activities, review questions and activities linked to a case study to apply the learning. 

The learning resource is useful for undergraduate study. The discussion of management accounting techniques is grounded in the academic research making it suitable for postgraduate study including postgraduate courses where students may have limited  knowledge of accounting, e.g. management accounting modules on an MBA course. 

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Contents page of Strategy and management accounting - see what's covered

Contents page of Strategy and management accounting - see what's covered

Contents page of Strategy and management accounting - see what's covered

The book covers the standard strategy models and strategic management accounting techniques within the context of a strategic management framework. A rational framework is adopted to illustrate how management accounting can aid the strategic management process. The management accounting techniques are discussed at appropriate points. It does not, however, preclude techniques from being used elsewhere to support strategic management 

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Chapter 1 - Management accounting and the strategic management framework

Contents page of Strategy and management accounting - see what's covered

Chapter 1 - Management accounting and the strategic management framework

This chapter covers the development of strategic management accounting and strategic management. A strategic management framework is outlined that forms the structure for the book.

Management accounting support is discussed in the context of strategy as practice.  

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Chapter 2 - Vision, mission, strategy and management accounting

Chapter 2 - Vision, mission, strategy and management accounting

Chapter 1 - Management accounting and the strategic management framework

This chapter covers the concepts of vision and mission and discusses strategic typologies and how they influence management accounting. 

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Chapter 3 - Understanding the business environment

Chapter 2 - Vision, mission, strategy and management accounting

Chapter 4 - Internal analysis and resource capability audit

This chapter covers PESTEL and Porter's five forces models and gives examples of how management accounting supports the analysis. Competitor analysis is also covered. 

The business ecosystem and scenario planning are discussed in some detail. 

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Chapter 4 - Internal analysis and resource capability audit

Chapter 2 - Vision, mission, strategy and management accounting

Chapter 4 - Internal analysis and resource capability audit

This chapter includes discussion of the 9Ms framework, product life cycle, portfolio analysis (BCG matrix), The discussion highlights the management accounting support for managing the product life cycle and product portfolios.  

Customer profitability analysis is covered in depth. The value creation system is explained along with supplier analysis. Financial analysis is covered briefly, but points to a more detailed explanation of ratio analysis provided in appendix B.   

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Chapter 5 - Strategic position and Chapter 6 - Competitive strategies

Chapter 9 - Implementation issues and Chapter 10 - Multidimensional performance management

Chapter 7 - Strategic options generation and Chapter 8 - Strategic evaluation and choice

Chapter 5 includes SWOT and Gap analysis. 

Chapter 6 includes competitive strategies, and pricing strategies. In support of cost leadership and differentiation the techniques of activity-based costing, lean accounting and the cost of quality are discussed. 

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Chapter 7 - Strategic options generation and Chapter 8 - Strategic evaluation and choice

Chapter 9 - Implementation issues and Chapter 10 - Multidimensional performance management

Chapter 7 - Strategic options generation and Chapter 8 - Strategic evaluation and choice

Chapter 7 includes strategies for growth based around market penetration, product and market development and diversification. Product development provide the opportunity for an extensive discussion of target costing and life cycle costing. Market development into international markets  includes an outline of the elements from Porter's competitive advantage of nations. The methods of growth organic, M & A, and joint development is also covered. 

Chapter 8 includes stakeholder analysis, investment appraisal including  real options and a discussion of risk management. 

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Chapter 9 - Implementation issues and Chapter 10 - Multidimensional performance management

Chapter 9 - Implementation issues and Chapter 10 - Multidimensional performance management

Chapter 9 - Implementation issues and Chapter 10 - Multidimensional performance management

Chapter 9 covers budgets, beyond budgeting, change and tailoring the reporting of management information  to the strategy. Chapter 10 includes the balanced scorecard, service sector performance, divisional performance, economic value added, transfer pricing, benchmarking and behavioral aspects of performance management. 

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Chapter 11 - Sustainability and the future role of management accounting

Appendix A, C and D - HW Inc. Case study activities and suggested solutions

Chapter 9 - Implementation issues and Chapter 10 - Multidimensional performance management

Chapter 11 covers definitions of sustainability and sustainable development and the development of a sustainable balanced scorecard. A discussion of the concept of environmental management accounting is included. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the factors influencing the ability of management accountants to become involved in the strategic management process. 

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Appendix A, C and D - HW Inc. Case study activities and suggested solutions

Appendix A, C and D - HW Inc. Case study activities and suggested solutions

Appendix A, C and D - HW Inc. Case study activities and suggested solutions

Appendix A contains the background to the HW Inc. case study that is used throughout the book. Activities are included within each chapter. However, the activities have been collected together within a question bank so that the case, questions and solutions can be downloaded separately. 

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Appendix B - Management accounting fundamentals

Appendix A, C and D - HW Inc. Case study activities and suggested solutions

Appendix A, C and D - HW Inc. Case study activities and suggested solutions

Appendix B includes cost-volume-profit analysis, basic product mix decisions, flexible budgets, cash budgets and financial ratio analysis. The techniques provide support for students who have not studied management accounting before. 

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