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Feed Forward Cost Accounting and Strategic Management

In: Management Accounting

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  • Akira Nishimura

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As a result of a number of rapid recent changes in the business environment, today’s accounting scientists should eagerly wrestle with two major issues: how to define the object of their study; and how to research it. Concerning the object of study, today’s management accounting is faced by a number of strategic problems. Strategic management accounting and strategic cost management have become vogue words, although their meaning is not always clear (Wilson, 1997). Thus, it is an important question whether management accounting can deal directly with strategic problems. Moreover, we must consider how they can be dealt with. Anyway, it is certain that the study of management accounting faces a turning point centred around these strategic problems. Accordingly, scholars should clarify the relationship between strategic problems and management accounting. In order to make the present object of accounting study clear and force accounting research to take a scientific step forward, they should face the relationship between the strategic problems and accounting from a scientific point of view.

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  • Akira Nishimura, 2003. "Feed Forward Cost Accounting and Strategic Management," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Management Accounting, chapter 10, pages 139-157, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-4815-1_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403948151_10
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