Strategic Management Accounting
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Discuss reasons behind the varying degrees to which organisations choose to decentralize versus centralize, and explain the impact of these choices on management control systems.
Examine how responsibility accounting can be used to encourage goal congruence in decentralized organisations.
Assess the effectiveness of using financial performance measures to motivate managers to make decisions in line with organisational strategy.
Critique the use of other (nonfinancial) performance measures to evaluate and reward performance.
Appraise organisational performance on the counts of sustainability and corporate social responsibility, and explain why keeping track of performance measures can be critical to an organisations’ sustainability.
Recommend suitable performance evaluation and compensation plan designs based on the understanding of an organisation’s strategy and structure.