2011
DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2011.629415
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Roles, Authority and Involvement of the Management Accounting Function: A Multiple Case-study Perspective

Abstract: Recent techniques and shifts in the environment are often viewed as leading management accountants to adopt a business orientation. However, empirical evidence pointing to clear shifts in the role played by management accountants remains relatively scarce. From in-depth qualitative research based on 73 interviews in ten multinational companies, we identify four distinct styles of management accounting function: discrete, safeguarding, partner, and omnipotent. We show that each style can be associated with one … Show more

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“…To achieve this, figures must help the manager "steer" the activity rather than enabling the superior to assess his/her juniors (even if the manager and superior in this example are one and the same person); inform him/her about the activities managed, but not inform the people to whom he/she is accountable. This tricky relationship with figures is central to the safeguarding function of French management accountants (Lambert & Sponem, 2012). The data produced and used by management controllers, perceived by engineers as less robust than the data they themselves produce, and incorporated into a reporting system that shows little congruence with the honor principle, are particularly difficult to legitimize in the eyes of French managers 7 .…”
Section: Financial Data Versus "Useful" Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…To achieve this, figures must help the manager "steer" the activity rather than enabling the superior to assess his/her juniors (even if the manager and superior in this example are one and the same person); inform him/her about the activities managed, but not inform the people to whom he/she is accountable. This tricky relationship with figures is central to the safeguarding function of French management accountants (Lambert & Sponem, 2012). The data produced and used by management controllers, perceived by engineers as less robust than the data they themselves produce, and incorporated into a reporting system that shows little congruence with the honor principle, are particularly difficult to legitimize in the eyes of French managers 7 .…”
Section: Financial Data Versus "Useful" Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This means that the person sent by the finance division is no more welcome in the operational departments than the external auditor in the very same finance division: each person is careful not to disclose any information that might put their superior (or junior) in difficulty without prior consent, which would be perceived as a form of denunciation. This leads certain business partner-style management controllers who are strongly involved in the business units to collude with managers to subvert hierarchical control (Lambert and Sponem, 2005;Lambert and Sponem, 2012).…”
Section: The Ambivalence Of Controlmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A kvantitatív esetalapú kutatások főleg numerikus adatokat és statisztikai módszereket alkalmaznak (Anderson & Widener, 2006 (Hopper, 1980;Mouritsen, 1996). Az objektivista kutatások még ma is általában kérdőíves lekérdezéseket tartalmaznak (Loo, Verstegen, & Swagerman, 2011), vagy többszörös esettanulmányokat (Lambert & Sponem, 2012), tartalomelemzést (Drótos, 2013). A szubjektivista megközelítésű tanulmányok jellemzően egy vállalatra fókuszáló esettanulmányokon nyugszanak (L. Goretzki et al, 2013).…”
Section: Kutatási Módszerekunclassified
“…A controlleri funkció nyilvánvalóan szorosan kapcsolódik az egyéni controller szerepéhez. Egyrészt az egyén önképét befolyásolja a csoportkép, másrészt pedig a controllerek általános szervezeti szerepe az egyéni szinten tapasztalt szerepek absztrakciója (Lambert & Sponem, 2012 A controlling szervezet, mint külön kutatási terület létezését a pénzügyi számvitel és a controlling hagyományos szervezeti különállása indokolja a német nyelvterületen. Az angolszász irodalomból ez hiányzik, hiszen a pénzügyi és vezetői számvitel szervezetileg is összefonódik, a pénzügyi terület alatt.…”
Section: A Controller Szervezeti Szerepeunclassified
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