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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298476903321

Autore

Nilsson Fredrik

Titolo

Financial Accounting and Management Control : The Tensions and Conflicts Between Uniformity and Uniqueness / / by Fredrik Nilsson, Anna-Karin Stockenstrand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-13782-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Collana

Contributions to Management Science, , 1431-1941

Disciplina

658.1511

Soggetti

Accounting

Bookkeeping 

Finance

Leadership

Accounting/Auditing

Finance, general

Business Strategy/Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The objectives of financial accounting and management control -- A Frame of reference -- Financial accounting standards: Some examples -- How financial accounting affects management control -- Concluding reflections.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about financial accounting and management control and how these two information systems are related as well as how their objectives conflict. At the most fundamental level, the objective of financial accounting is to provide owners and funders with comparable information on a company's value creation. The aim of management control, on the other hand, is to give the board, senior executives and employees unique information for strategy formulation and implementation. One often-mentioned negative effect is the risk of financial accounting affecting management control design and use, making it less relevant for decision-making at the company level. The book provides an analysis of the complex relationship between



financial accounting and management control. The analysis is based on theoretical reasoning as well as several examples of how financial accounting standards affect not only the annual report but also the control system. An interesting, and perhaps unexpected conclusion is that management control seems to affect financial accounting almost as much as financial accounting affects management control. These complex relationships, which can influence the design and use of both financial accounting and management control, are discussed in detail in this book.