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This title was recommended as a significant textbook within Bruno S. Frey and Christoph A. Schaltegger (eds), 21^st Century Economics – Economic Ideas You Should Read and Remember (Springer, 2019).

As the market-leading text for Management Control and performance measurement, Management Control Systems 4th Edition will give you a thorough understanding of core concepts and key topics. Including a wide range of international case studies and real life examples means this is the ideal guide for understanding complex topics and bringing this subject to life.

Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation And Incentives

• PART I: The Control function of Management
• 1   Management and Control
• PART II: Management Control alternatives and their effects
• 2   Results Controls
• 3   Action, Personnel, and Cultural Controls
• 4   Control System Tightness
• 5   Control System Costs
•  6   Designing and Evaluating Management Control Systems
• PART III: Financial Results Control Systems
• 7   Financial Responsibility Centers
• 8   Planning and Budgeting
• 9   Incentive Systems
• PART IV: Performance measurement issues and their effects
• 10    Financial Performance Measures and their Effects
• 11    Combinations of Measures and Other Remedies to the Myopia Problem
• 12    Using Financial Results Control in the Presence of Uncontrollable Factors  
• PART V: Corporate Governance, Important Control-related roles and Ethics
• 13    Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors
• 14    Controllers and Auditors
• 15    Management Control-Related Ethical Issues and Analyses  
• PART VI: Significant Situational influences on management control systems
• 16    Management Control in Non-Profit Organizations
• Index