The expertise of prominent researchers has been pooled to critically explore, in a digestible manner, a broad range of emergent areas and advances which impinge on management accounting practice. Preface, Acknowledgements, The Changing Nature of Issues in Management and Accounting, The History of Management Accounting: Relevance Found, Management Control and Organizational Design and Accounting Information Systems, Critical Management Accounting, Costing and the New Operations Management, Activity-Based Costing, Transfer Pricing, Strategic Management Accounting, Financial Justification of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Management Information Systems and Computer Technology and Management Accounting, Accounting Measures and Motivation and Performance Appraisal, Introduction to Agency Theory in Management Accounting, Budgeting and Creativity and Culture, Management Accounting in Global Firms, A Comparative Analysis of Management Accounting in Japan and USA and UK and West Germany, Caught in the Act: Public Services Disappearing in the World of Accountable Management, Notes, References, Index.