IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/accper/v10y2011i3p225-235.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Mountain City Transit: Management Control and Performance Measurement

Author

Listed:
  • Mark Klassen
  • Suresh Kalagnanam

Abstract

Mountain City Transit (MCT) is a short in‐class case based on a real‐life city transit department, a context with which students are very familiar. The case allows three delivery options for instructors. A first option is for instructors to use the case to introduce various elements of management control—the case is rich, thereby allowing students to identify multiple issues facing the organization. As a second option, instructors can use it as a performance management case wherein students build a balanced scorecard and receive a completed strategy map to analyze. As a third delivery option, the case can be used twice during the course, both to introduce management control and to discuss performance measurement. Students will also discuss real life implementation challenges that MCT and other organizations face. Mountain City Transit: contrôle de gestion et évaluation de la performance Résumé Mountain City Transit (MCT) est une brève étude de cas à réaliser en classe, fondée sur le cas réel d’un service de transport municipal, un contexte que les étudiants connaissent très bien. Les enseignants peuvent utiliser ce cas de trois façons différentes. La première consiste à s’en servir pour initier les étudiants à divers éléments du contrôle de gestion — la situation à l’étude est riche, ce qui permet aux étudiants de cerner les multiples problématiques auxquelles l’organisation fait face. La deuxième consiste à s’en servir comme situation de gestion de la performance dans laquelle les étudiants sont appelés à bâtir un tableau de bord et à analyser une grille stratégique déjà remplie. Enfin, la troisième option consiste à utiliser le cas à deux reprises durant le cours, pour initier les étudiants au contrôle de gestion d’une part et pour discuter avec eux d’évaluation de la performance d’autre part. Les étudiants échangeront également sur les défis de la mise en application concrète que doivent relever MCT et d’autres organisations.

Suggested Citation

  • Mark Klassen & Suresh Kalagnanam, 2011. "Mountain City Transit: Management Control and Performance Measurement," Accounting Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 10(3), pages 225-235, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:accper:v:10:y:2011:i:3:p:225-235
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3838.2011.00025.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1911-3838.2011.00025.x
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1911-3838.2011.00025.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:accper:v:10:y:2011:i:3:p:225-235. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1111/(ISSN)1911-3838 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.