Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management, and accountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important part of the curriculum and research of business and management schools, the fastest growing sector in higher education. This growth is largely a phenomenon of the last 50 years or so. Prior to that, accounting was seen mainly as a mundane, technical, bookkeeping exercise (and some still share that naive view). The growth in accounting has demanded a corresponding engagement by scholars to examine and highlight the important behavioural, organizational, institutional, and social dimensions of accounting. Pioneering work by accounting researchers and social scientists more generally has persuasively demonstrated to a wider social science, professional, management, and policy audience how many aspects of life are indeed constituted, to an important extent, through the calculative practices of accounting. Anthony Hopwood, to whom this book is dedicated, was a leading figure in this endeavour, which has effectively defined accounting as a distinctive field of research in the social sciences. The book brings together the work of leading international accounting academics and social scientists, and demonstrates the scope, vitality, and insights of contemporary scholarship in and on accounting and auditing.

The Future of Auditing provides a concise overview of the function of auditing and the future challenges it faces, underpinned with suggestions for future research. It evaluates the key challenges facing the profession, such as quality, competition, and governance, as well as highlighting the under-explored areas of ethics, fraud, and judgement. The emphasis throughout is on the value of audit, and the importance of auditing research. Providing an original assessment of global versus national auditing, evidence-based auditing standards, and the structure of professional firms, David Hay critically examines the value of auditing from different standpoints. He critically reviews current assumptions about the value of audits of financial statements, and explores research opportunities and priorities to improve understanding of the value of auditing and its future role and function. This authoritative but accessible guide to the future of auditing and the challenges it faces will be useful not only to auditing researchers, but also to policy makers, standard setters, financial journalists, and auditing professionals seeking an accessible overview of current and future issues in auditing.

In The Reckoning, award-winning historian Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fates of entire societies. Time and again, Soll reveals, good and honest accounting has been a tool to build successful companies, states and empires. Yet when it is neglected or falls into the wrong hands, accounting has contributed to cycles of destruction that continue to this day. Combining rigorous scholarship and fresh storytelling, The Reckoning traces the surprisingly powerful influence of accounting on financial and political stability, from the powerful Medici bank in the 14th century Italy to the 2008 financial crisis.

Der kaum nachprufbare Erfolg von Trainingsmassnahmen stellt im Personalbereich einen erheblichen Unsicherheitsfaktor dar. Das Buch beschreibt detailliert den ROI-Process(TM) anhand von funf Evaluationsstufen: 1. Wie beurteilen die Teilnehmer die Fortbildung? 2. Was haben die Teilnehmer gelernt? 3. Ist die Umsetzung am Arbeitsplatz moeglich? 4. Welche Effekte hat dies im Unternehmen, welche Geschaftsergebnisse werden erzielt? 5. Welcher Return on Investment (ROI) ergibt sich daraus? Der praxisbewahrte ROI-Process(TM) nach Jack J. Phillips, von namhaften Unternehmen weltweit eingesetzt, ermoeglicht jetzt auch Managern im deutschsprachigen Raum, kosteneffektiv und ergebnisorientiert in ihre Personalentwicklung zu investieren. Die zweite Auflage enthalt praktische Checklisten, eine Lernerfolgsanalyse und neue Tools zum Best-Practise-Prozess fur die Personalentwicklung sowie eine detaillierte ROI-Fallstudie.

Running public sector organizations requires specialist accounting and finance skills to overcome the unique challenges of the sector. Citizens rely on their governments to provide a wide range of public services from an inevitably limited budget and therefore the better that the public money is managed the more services that can be delivered. Just as there is no single best way to manage a business there is no single best way to manage public finances. Co-published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), the world's leading professional public finance accountancy body, International Public Financial Management: Essentials of Public Sector Accounting provides an expert introduction to public sector accounting and finance. This book was conceived to accompany CIPFA's International Public Financial Management (IPFM) qualifications as a resource for students that seeks to capture the essential elements of the modules they study, and reflects good practice as put forward by CIPFA in its examination syllabuses. Students of public management and public sector accounting will find this a useful text. Practitioners working in the public sector will also find this concise book vital reading in seeking value for money in providing public services.

Since the mid-1990s risk management has undergone a dramatic expansion in its reach and significance, being transformed from an aspect of management control to become a benchmark of good governance for banks, hospitals, schools, charities and many other organizations. Numerous standards for risk management practice have been produced by a variety of transnational organizations. While these many designs and blueprints are accompanied by ideals of enterprise, value production, and good governance, it is argued that the rise of risk management has also coincided with an intensification of auditing and control processes. The legalization and bureacratization of organizational life has increased because risk management has created new demands for proof and evidence of action. In turn, these demands have generated new risks to reputation.
In short, this important book traces the rise of the managerial concept of risk and the different logics and values which underpin it, showing that it has much less to do with real dangers and opportunities than might be thought, and more to do with organizational accountability and legitimacy.

The second edition of Cost and Management Accounting: Operations and Management is a southern African text which supports the latest curriculum offered by major accounting professional bodies and higher education institutions. It has been updated to cover current developments in management accounting. Its carefully developed pedagogical approach, offering a balance between the technical and the conceptual, combined with its focus on the requirements of professional bodies, gives students a solid exposure to the cost and management accounting profession while simplifying the learning process. Retaining its student-friendly writing style and practical approach, it is the ideal text for students of cost and management accounting across many levels, from introductory to advanced, undergraduate and postgraduate.

Principles of External Auditing has become established as one of the leading textbooks for students studying auditing. Striking a careful balance between theory and practice, the book describes and explains, in non-technical language, the nature of the audit function and the principles of the audit process. The book covers international auditing and accounting standards and relevant statute and case law. It explains the fundamental concepts of auditing and takes the reader through the various stages of the audit process. It also discusses topical aspects of auditing such as legal liability, audit risk, quality control, and the impact of information technology. Brenda Porter is currently visiting Professor at Exeter University and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

Over the past decade, management accounting has seen changes not just within existing domains of the field but has also witnessed extensions outside its established realms of activity. Wider systemic transformations including changes in political regimes, novel conceptions of management controls, the impact of globalising forces on commercial affairs, shifts in notions of effective knowledge management, governance and ethics, and technological advances, including the rise of broadband, have all impacted management accounting endeavours. The field is as fast changing as it has ever been. This book captures key facets of current thoughts, concerns and issues in management accounting. The book consists of eighteen chapters written by distinguished scholars in the field. The topic areas covered in some chapters reflect established management accounting topics such as budgeting and responsibility accounting, contract theory analysis, contingency frameworks, performance measurement systems and strategic cost management which are considered within the perspective of changing concerns facing modern organizations and present day management thought. Other chapters deal with newly emerging concerns in management accounting, including network relations, integrated cost management systems, knowledge management pursuits, environmental management accounting and accounting and digitisation. Each chapter encompasses discussions of basic premises complemented by insights from modern day practice, research and thought. This makes the book particularly suitable for students in intermediate, advanced and executive level courses in management accounting. It also provides an extensive corpus of discussions which will inform those in practice. Readers interested in gaining direct insights into specialised management accounting areas will find this book to be an especially valuable reference source.

The fully updated, second edition of Management Control Systems supports students to develop an investigative approach to implementing planning and control systems for strategic success. With strong links between theory and modern real-world practices, the new edition reflects developments in global management and business, plus contemporary design and use of management control systems. Students have access to a wealth of diverse analytical cases, balanced with current content and international examples. Key features of this new edition include: *Fully revised to incorporate current methods in management control *New chapters on Managers, Human behaviour and Organizations, Risk Management and The controllers - past, present, future. *New coverage of topics such as Risk management, Sustainability, Globalisation and Ethics.". *New end-of-chapter and additional cases that cover chapter topics and provide questions and discussion topics for students to put their knowledge to practice. *Full coverage of current management control systems roles and responsibilities, including controllers, BU-controllers and the CFO *Learning Objectives at the beginning of each chapter provide a structure for students to progress their knowledge from. *Now available with Connect (R), including access to a Testbank and 10 case studies that are assignable and autogradable. Available with McGraw Hill Education's Connect (R), the well-established online learning platform, which features resources to help faculty and institutions improve student outcomes and course delivery efficiency. Are you a student? Gain easy online access to homework, tests and quizzes with immediate feedback on your progress as well as access to practice materials. Are you an instructor? You can create auto-graded assignments, tests and quizzes. Detailed visual reporting allows you to easily monitor student progress. Explore the updated instructor resources that include an instructor's manual, solutions manual, PowerPoints, glossary and appendices. Frank G.H. Hartmann is a Professor of Accounting at the Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University. Kalle Kraus is Professor in Accounting at the Stockholm School of Economics. Goeran Nilsson is a Senior Lecturer in Management Control at Uppsala University. Robert N. Anthony was the Ross Graham Walker Professor Emeritus of Management Control at Harvard Business School. Vijay Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Selling author.

Kaum ein Themenkomplex wird in der steuerpolitischen Diskussion so kontrovers diskutiert, so regelmassig vorubergehend beerdigt und anschliessend wiederbelebt wie die Wiedereinfuhrung einer Vermoegensteuer. Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob eine Vermoegensteuer uberhaupt in verfassungskonformer Weise wiedereingefuhrt werden kann und, falls dies der Fall ist, welche verfassungsrechtlichen Grenzen die Politik dabei zu wahren hat. Hierbei geht die Arbeit insbesondere der Frage nach, ob der so genannte Halbteilungsgrundsatz aus dem Grundgesetz abgeleitet werden kann und wie er zu operationalisieren ist. Die Arbeit zeigt auf, dass eine substanzentziehende Vermoegensteuer verfassungsrechtlich unzulassig ware und dass selbst eine als so genannte Sollertragsteuer ausgestaltete Vermoegensteuer verfassungsrechtlich schwerwiegenden Bedenken unterliegt. Selbst wenn man diese Bedenken ignoriert, ist auf Basis der - verfassungsrechtlich erforderlichen - Anwendung des Halbteilungsgrundsatzes im derzeitigen Steuersystem uberhaupt nur dann Platz fur eine Vermoegensteuer, wenn die Vermoegensteuerschuld bei den Ertragsteuern angerechnet wird. Zustandig fur die Wiedereinfuhrung einer Vermoegensteuer waren derzeit - entgegen der allgemeinen Annahme in Politik und Rechtswissenschaft - die Lander.

Cost-Benefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of backgrounds build solid conceptual foundations. It provides thorough treatments of time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods including contingent valuation, and other related methods. Updated to cover contemporary research, this edition is considerably reorganized to aid in student and practitioner understanding, and includes eight new cases to demonstrate the actual practice of cost-benefit analysis. Widely cited, it is recognized as an authoritative source on cost-benefit analysis. Illustrations, exhibits, chapter exercises, and case studies help students master concepts and develop craft skills.

Die Rechnungslegungsvorschriften nach IAS/IFRS haben, mit deren UEbernahme in europaisches Recht im Jahr 2003 und mit der ab 1. Januar 2005 in Kraft getretenen und fur alle europaischen kapitalmarktorientierten Unternehmen gultigen gesetzlichen Verpflichtung zur Konzernabschlusserstellung nach IAS/IFRS, erheblich an Aktualitat gewonnen. Im Gegensatz zu den US-amerikanischen US-GAAP, die vor dem Hintergrund der Bilanzskandale um WordCom, Enron und andere in der aktuellen Diskussion als regelbasierte ("rule-based") und daher missbrauchsanfallige Rechnungslegung kritisiert wird, werden IAS/IFRS als eine eher prinzipienbasierte ("principle-based") Rechnungslegung beschrieben. Aufgrund der Prinzipienbasierung soll bei der Abschlusserstellung und Prufung weniger das Befolgen kasuistischer Einzelfallregelungen als vielmehr verantwortungsvolles "professional judgement" der Abschlussersteller und Prufer stehen, das im Sinne des eigentlichen Geists der Regelungen ("spirit of the rules") auszuuben ist. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird die vermeintliche Prinzipienbasierung der IAS/IFRS auf breiter Basis analysiert.

Zum 01.01.2005 muss der Gesetzgeber einen Konflikt beilegen, der seit nunmehr 50 Jahren besteht und seit uber 20 Jahren das Bundesverfassungsgericht beschaftigt. Das hierzu notwendige Gesetz soll Gleichheit bei der Besteuerung der Altersvorsorge von Beamten und gesetzlich Rentenversicherten herbeifuhren. Die Arbeit nahert sich der Reformaufgabe sowohl aus juristischer wie aus volkswirtschaftlicher Sicht. Den Schwerpunkt bildet die Entwicklung eines deterministischen, mikrooekonomischen Gruppensimulationsmodells. Gestutzt auf Einkommensverlaufsschatzungen werden die Verteilungswirkungen des Gesetzesentwurfes offen gelegt. Die ausgearbeitete Alternative verdeutlicht, wie eine UEberhoehung der Steuerbelastung von Zwischengenerationen sowie Doppelbesteuerung vermieden werden kann.