It could be argued that, without humans there is no organisation. Until now, and into the foreseeable future, machines will still require humans to design them and to switch them on. The conditions portrayed in the movie trilogy the Matrix have yet to come to fruition. Traditionally, while...

In prior chapters, a phrase something like 'without customers there is no business and no organisation' has been regularly stated in a range of forms. Oddly, the significance of this phrase is not greatly reflected in either management accounting or marketing texts and the teaching of these...

Throughout this book, different aspects of organisational value have been examined. In Chapter 2, the notion of a strategy based value chain (SBVC) was introduced as represented in Figure 11.1. In Chapter 3, which examines organisational decision making, some of the significant external business...

Purpose: The development of a risk-focused performance management system (PMS)planning framework for organisations undergoing externally-driven regulatory change within a constrained operating environment. Methodology/Approach: This study focuses on New Zealand electricity generators and...

The objective of this paper is to generate debate about the current status of the practice and teaching of management accounting. In order to focus that debate in moving management accounting forward, the concepts of strategy based accounting (SBA) and a strategy based value chain (SBVC) are...

In the changing and sometimes volatile world in which organisations operate and do business, management accounting and management accountants are responsible for the costing, control, and performance information that support management decision-making; the optimising of organisational performance;...

In 2007 the New Zealand government in principle adopted the implementation of a cap and trade emissions trading scheme (ETS) in the energy sector from 2010. The objective of this paper is to develop a risk-focused performance management system (PMS) planning framework for organisations...