This 2nd edition offers a coherent and up-to-date text, which provides a synthesis of theory and research. Part 1 discusses business organizations; part 2 looks at the role that accounting can play in decision making; part 3 discusses the role of accounting in activities such as performance measurement and evaluation; part 4 looks at the role of accounting in management control; and part 5 is comprised of case studies. This second edition includes new examples and case studies that link the theory to real life situations, more end-of-chapter questions and increased emphasis on management control. This book should be of interest to intermediate and advanced students of accounting, business studies and management studies on degree, diploma and professional courses.

This is a new edition of the same authors' Management Control: Theories, Issues and Practices. The book provides undergraduate and postgraduate students of management control, together with interested practitioners, with a thoroughly contemporary overview of the area. Whilst the core of the original book is retained, new chapters are added on knowledge management, risk and control in Networks.