Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Accounting - Managerial

Over the past decades, the total value of executive compensation packages has been rising dramatically, contributing to a wider pay gap between the chief executive officer and the average worker. In the midst of the financial turmoil that brought about a massive wave of corporate failures, the lavish executive compensation package has come under an intense spotlight. Public pressure has mounted to revise the levels and the structure of executive pay in a way that will tie more closely the executive wealth to that of shareholders. Merger and acquisition (M&A) activities represent an...

Dieses Buch stellt ein Projektfuhrungsmodell fur M&A vor, das von der Zielentwicklung fur ein M&A-Projekt bis zur Umsetzung des Zieles Durchgangigkeit und Konsistenz gewahrleistet. In der 2., uberarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage orientieren sich die Autoren konsequent an der M&A-Prozessidee. Ein M&A-Projekt wird definiert als Abfolge spezifischer Arbeitspakete ( Working Packages ), die nach inhaltlichen Schwerpunkten angeordnet und abgearbeitet werden. Der Gesamtprozess wird dabei in die Phasen Planung/Transaktion/Integration gegliedert. Grundlage der Empfehlungen der Autoren ist ihre...

Many scholars have claimed that management accounting research has lost its pragmatic relevancy and interventionist research has been proposed as one way to produce theories with increased practical implications. In interventionist research, active participation in the field is regarded as an asset rather than a liability. Despite the methodological debate on interventionist research, there is lack of empirical studies on how interventionist research actually helps to produce theories with such pragmatic relevance. The lack of empirical studies has, perhaps, resulted in a too narrow...

Marketing and implementing large-volume orders and major projects calls for specific types of expertise. This textbook deals with all of the management tasks involved: order management, inquiry evaluation and proposal preparation, pricing and revenue planning, order financing and financial engineering, contract management, negotiation management, project management, and finally project cooperation. Adopting a cross-sector perspective, it examines both traditional manufacturing industries and business-to-business services. All contributions are presented in an accessible style, making the...

A complete study solution for Part 1 of the CMA exam

Consisting of a complete textbook plus two-year access to an online test bank with 900 multiple-choice questions, Wiley CMA Learning System consists of Part 1: Financial Reporting, Planning, Performance. Key formulas and knowledge checks are provided at the end of each topic, as well as study tips and practice questions providing candidates with what they need to pass the CMA Exam. Also included is one year of access to the CMA Test Bank containing over 900 questions.

• Covers all 2016 exam changes
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A complete study solution for Part 2 of the CMA exam

Consisting of a complete textbook plus one-year access to an online test bank with 1,100 multiple-choice questions, Wiley CMA Learning System consists of Part 2: Financial Decision Making. Key formulas and knowledge checks are provided at the end of each topic, as well as study tips and practice questions providing candidates with what they need to pass the CMA Exam. Also included is one year of access to the CMA Test Bank containing over 1,100 questions.

• Covers all 2016 exam changes
• Provides students...

This collection of memorial articles and selected obituaries highlights the careers and contributions to accounting practice, the accounting profession, and the accounting literature of leading American figures in the 20th century. The memorial articles do much more than recite their subject s career. More importantly, they discuss and assess their subject s role in influencing the course of accounting practice and the profession as well as the evolution of their influential writings, revealing the names of the accounting leaders and leading thinkers of the past century.

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High quality cost estimating gives a business leader confidence to make rational financial decisions. Whether you are a business leader or a cost estimating manager, you have a vested interest in understanding whether you can depend on your organisation's ability to generate accurate cost forecasts and estimates. But how can business leaders have confidence that the cost information that they are being provided with is of high quality? How can a cost estimating manager be sure that their team is providing high quality cost information?

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