Successful Foreign Acquisitions: The Pivotal Role of the Management Accountant
| By: | Appleyard, Tony; Pallett, Simon |
| Publisher: | Elsevier S & T |
| Print ISBN: | 9780750661720 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780080489766 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Successful Foreign Acquisitions investigates two cross-border acquisitions with the aim of looking at the role of management accounting in the process and drawing useful lessons about the acquistion and integration process for practioners.
The authors:
*identify the acquisition strategy and examine its added value
*evaluate the strategy in both cultural and economic terms
*consider the required management control systems needed to implement the strategy and compare this with the actual control systems used
* review what performance measures would be needed to encourage managers to deliver and compare these with the actual measures introduced
* consider how environmental and cultural differences impact on this process