Performance measures shall enhance the performance of companies by directing the attention of decision makers towards the achievement of organizational goals. Therefore, goal congruence is regarded in literature as a major factor in the quality of such measures. As reality is affected by many...

Corporate financial performance measured in terms of accounting-based ratios has been viewed as inadequate as firms began focusing on shareholder value as the primary long-term objective of the organization. Corporate managers have been facing a period where a new economic framework that better...

The article reports the findings of survey of CFO's on use and satisfaction about performance of prevailing performance measurement systems, framework and models in select companies in India. With increased use of performance measures and the amount of resource incurred in terms money and...

This article presents a survey on the critics to the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) implementation in private organizations and the opinion of Brazilian executives from three different enterprises about these critics. As for Kaplan and Norton (1997) proposal, some outlines were not followed by the...

This study extends prior balanced scorecard research by incorporating the effects of uncertainty, payment schemes and the strength of causal relations proposed in the performance measurement model (PMM) on the budgetary dynamics. Our analysis was restricted to two strategic business units,...

The purpose of this paper is the discussion of non-financial performance measures that can be adopted in the management accounting function of business organisations. The study is important because it shows how organisational focus on non-financial measures can substantially enhance...

This study examines the effectiveness of performance measurement system (PMS) for the principal's decision making in a context of foreign subsidiary management. In the midst of the current competition, global organizations are faced with tensions resulted from the pursuit of centralization and...

Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate the extent and level of sufficiency economy philosophy (SEP) practice, the performance measured by the balanced scorecard (BSC) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand, and to test the influence of SEP practice on SMEs’...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a survey and interviews with HR professionals to identify and better understand their perceptions and expectations of Human capital (HC) measures’ content, links to strategy, and impact on performance....

Family business literature shows that family and nonfamily firms differ with respect to their financial reporting decisions. However, although the literature on financial reporting in fami - ly firms has developed over the last ten years, it is mostly oriented towards earnings management and...