The Basics of Public Budgeting and Financial Management
Connecting budgetary theory with practical tools, Charles E. Menifield carefully examines the key areas that every budgeting and financial management student needs to know in order to be a successful budgeteer in a local government, nonprofit, or state-level budget office.
Cost Accounting
Analyzing and managing costs is crucial for business success. Industrial, service, and non-profit companies will not be successful in the long-term if they do not understand their costs.This textbook introduces the basic concepts and current developments in cost accounting. The book features numerous anecdotal examples from a wide range of industries, case studies, Microsoft Excel examples, and exercises to ensure a sustainable learning success.
Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration
Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration
Auditing Transformation
This book identifies drivers of transformation of auditing, including regulation, digitalisation, sustainability, and individual auditor characteristics, and discusses how the drivers affect auditing. It provides a holistic perspective, discussing these current and highly relevant themes in depth and 'one by one' and also stresses the importance of the temporal dimension, i.e., offering a historical and a present-day perspective. The book covers several different theoretical perspectives when analysing and discussing how the various drivers affect auditors, the audit process, accounting firms, stakeholders and so on. Sweden is used as a setting to study the effects of these drivers of transition. The Swedish experience is generalisable to other European countries, with a Germanic origin currently influenced by Anglo-American ideas of auditing. In addition, Sweden provides a research setting with unique access to empirical data. The monograph is unique in its broad coverage of drivers of transformation, combined with its clear focus on financial auditing. It is informed by a wide range of research approaches, from qualitative interview studies to recently developed machine learning methods. Readers, therefore, benefit from a comprehensive understanding of current changes in the audit industry.This will be a useful reference work for students of accounting and auditing, as well as for audit practitioners, including both auditors and regulators, and for researchers.
Managerial Accounting for Dummies
An easy-to-understand guide to making informed and effective business decisions With clear explanations and real-life examples, Managerial Accounting For Dummies gives you the basic concepts, terminology, and methods you need to fully grasp this important area of business, anywhere. You'll know how to identify, measure, analyze, interpret, and communicate the data that drives decision making in every industry. Understand and manage costs, plan, budget, and use these accounting skills for business evaluation and control. This approachable guide covers all the content in a typical managerial accounting course, making it perfect for students preparing for accounting careers. Professionals looking for a refresher will also benefit from this straightforward resource. Inside: Get clear descriptions of managerial accounting techniques and processes Learn how to collect, report, and analyze financial data to drive effective business decisions Discover how managerial accounting can improve sustainability and reduce risk Managerial Accounting For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides comprehensive information on global strategic management, basic data analysis techniques, and beyond--you'll understand all parts of the managerial accounting process and why it matters with this accessible resource.
Winning through Innovation
WINNING THROUGH INNOVATION is a practical guide written by award-winning author Stephen W. Hinch. He has led major innovation projects that have delivered billions of dollars of new value to organizations including Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and TeamLogic IT. WINNING THROUGH INNOVATION uses detailed, real-life examples to show what managers can do to achieve innovation success: how to inspire teams, influence senior leaders, optimize organization structures, set innovation priorities, deal with competition, and more
The Impact of Organizations
The Impact of Organizations: Measurement, Management and Corporate Reporting contributes to the growing debate on the importance of measuring, managing, and reporting organizations' impact in the interest of companies, stakeholders, and policymakers.Through theoretical analysis, data analysis, case studies, and collaboration with academics and practitioners in the field, this book offers a comprehensive view of the topics covered and is structured into three main parts: i) from sustainability to impact evaluation and management: a corporate perspective; ii) financial sector, sustainability integration and impact management; iii) impact management to innovate the public institutions. The topics covered in this book contribute to the existing debate on the need to provide companies with tools to measure and manage impact effectively and address the need from businesses and investors for a simplified corporate reporting landscape.As such, this book represents a useful guide for academics who are investigating this field, for companies and practitioners working on measuring, managing, and communicating impact, as well as students and graduates who would like to pursue a career in the field of sustainability and impact.
Accounting for Feminism
Although gender challenges in accounting are widely acknowledged, research often addresses the position of men and women in relation to various issues, without necessarily challenging the underlying structures and social constructions of gender. In contrast, this book takes a much more overtly feminist position, informed by feminist theory, feminist methodology and feminist activism, to challenge these constructs and resulting inequalities. The book addresses contemporary global feminisms and their potential emancipatory implications for accounting, as a profession and as a tool or technology.It explores feminist theorisations of accounting, offering new insights into their relevance, and provides a rich theoretical and practical resource to advance knowledge in the discipline and stimulate further interdisciplinary research. Rather than being issue driven with chapters organised to address particular concerns that relate to gender and accounting, such as parenthood, career progression, accountability, etc., the structure of this book is such that the feminist theoretical position is the starting point for each chapter. The book highlights the range of ways that feminism, in its various forms and from numerous theoretical perspectives, can contribute to an understanding of the challenges relating to gender, race and class occurring within accounting, and the ways of overcoming them.In this way, the book provides an integrated discussion of feminist theories and the emancipatory potential of applying them to accounting that will appeal to readers whatever their orientation to feminism.
Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
Sustainability Accounting and Reporting: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and applying the latest global framework for disclosing sustainability-related risks and opportunities by public-sector business entities, irrespective of whether the entity follows IFRS or GAAP. It serves as a practical resource on sustainability disclosure and provides real-life case studies and illustrative examples for students and practitioners to grasp the latest developments in sustainability.This book provides guidance and examples on how to prepare and present high-quality sustainability reports that meet the needs and expectations of various stakeholders, such as investors, regulators, customers and employees. It also offers a clear distinction between the scope and application of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards (Shareholder-Focused) and GRI Standards (Stakeholder-Focused), allowing students to gain the skills required to undertake sustainability reporting. Each chapter features case studies, boxed examples, objectives and summaries, key terminology lists, discussion and review questions and suggestions for further reading. Students and instructors are also supported by a broad range of accompanying digital resources.This textbook enables students, academics and practitioners to gain better insights into the changes in the sustainability reporting framework. It will be an essential resource for anyone who wants to stay ahead of the curve and contribute to a more sustainable future.
Integrating Change Management and Management Accounting Change
A Business Built to Last
A Business Built to Last is a memoir about the evolution of a highly successful and dynamic financial services business, Hewison Private Wealth.Established in 1985, the business' founder, John Hewison, developed a set of core principles and standards that would underpin the organisation's strategic framework, cementing its standing as an industry icon.Hewison's commitment to the empowerment of the individual proved to be a fundamental key to success, forming the basis of a culture that has long-standing and universal buy-in amongst management, staff and, importantly, the clients they serve.Describing himself as an 'innovation junkie', Hewison clearly defines many of the unique initiatives his business employed, from investment management philosophy to IT systems development, to creative management practices.However, his story is not all plain sailing, as Hewison faced significant challenges - market corrections, reforms, global financial disasters andlegal confrontations, including a fraudulent partner almost taking the company down.Overcoming these obstacles, John Hewison played an instrumental role on boards and advisory bodies, effectively helping to shape the financial planning profession in Australia and the world beyond.Now happily retired, Hewison's business continues to prosper and grow due in a large part to a carefully designed and managed succession plan. How Hewison Private Wealth achieved its success is a study in core beliefs and value systems that can apply equally to just about any business in any industry today.
Financial Statement Analysis for Value Investing
How should an investor challenge the market price and find value? This book provides a new lens, arguing that value investing is a matter of understanding the business through accounting. Stephen Penman and Peter F. Pope--leading authorities on accounting and its investment applications--demonstrate why attention to financial statements is the key to judicious valuation. More broadly, they show that accounting fundamentals, when analyzed in a systematic manner, teach us how to think about value in new ways. This guide to investing through analysis of financial statements presents both underlying principles and practical examples. It examines how an accounting book is structured, the ways to read one in order to extract information about value, and why accounting techniques help investors avoid common traps. Through cases that depict finance, investing, and accounting principles in action, readers learn crucial lessons for challenging the market's pricing. Financial Statement Analysis for Value Investing is essential reading for anyone interested in the fundamentals of value investing, practitioners and students alike. Both professional and individual investors can benefit from its techniques and insights, and it is well suited for value investing and financial statement analysis courses in business schools.
