When a company becomes the target of a takeover and seeks to contest the bid it issues a series of documents to shareholders in an attempt to convince them not to accept the offer for their shares. This study examines the defence documents of 31 contested takeovers in the UK during 1988 to...

Purpose - This paper investigates and reports on the management accounting practices in the British food and drinks industry. Design/methodology/approach - The data is generated by a large-scale postal questionnaire which was informed by preliminary interviews. Further interviews were carried...