Financial Accounting and Management Control The Tensions and Conflicts Between Uniformity and Uniqueness /

• Main Authors: Nilsson, Fredrik (Author), Stockenstrand, Anna-Karin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Contributions to Management Science,
• Subjects: Business.; Accounting.; Bookkeeping.; Leadership.; Finance.; Business and Management.; Accounting/Auditing.; Finance, general.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

This book is about financial accounting and management control and how these two information systems are related as well as how their objectives conflict. At the most fundamental level, the objective of financial accounting is to provide owners and funders with comparable information on a company�...

Table of Contents:

• The objectives of financial accounting and management control
• A Frame of reference
• Financial accounting standards: Some examples
• How financial accounting affects management control
• Concluding reflections.