Search for dissertations about: "management accounting"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 167 swedish dissertations containing the words management accounting.

  1. 11. Transportation asset management : Quality related accounting, measurements and use in road management processes

    Author : Berth Jonsson; Hans Lind; Lars Westin; KTH; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : Today there are shortcomings in monitoring, control, analyses, learning and reporting of the results of activities and operations in the road management processes. There are also shortcomings in transparency and verifiability, in knowledge of road management’s costs and life cycle costs, of the road capital’s standard and condition and in measures of quality deficiency costs, productivity and maintenance backlog. READ MORE

  2. 12. Management Accounting and the Institutionalisation of Trust

    Author : Gudrun Baldvinsdottir; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; trust; management accounting practice; management accountant; performance evaluation; institutionalisation;

    Abstract : Bearing in mind the important features of accounting figures with regard to performance evaluation, the value of the way accounting figures are experienced as trustworthy and fair cannot be stressed enough. Surprisingly, with the overall focus on efficiency in today´s companies and the intensified use of performance evaluation measurements, the question of trust has been somewhat neglected within accounting research. READ MORE

  3. 13. Environment and municipalities : towards a theory on municipal environmental Management

    Author : Fredrik Burström; KTH; []
    Keywords : Municipal environmental management; environmental policy; environmental management; environmental management system EMS ; environmental monitoring; information management; material flow analysis MFA ; material flow accounting; industrial ecology; i;

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  4. 14. Time to Work : Responsibilization and Reification in the Swedish Welfare State

    Author : Desirée Ödén; Mikael Holmgren Caicedo; Fredrik Svärdsten Nymans; Ebba Sjögren; Christine Cooper; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accounting; Management Accounting; Performance; Performance Management; Public Sector; Refugee Crisis; Establishment; Labour Market; Responsibilization; Commodification; Alienation; Reification; Critical Theory; Swedish Public Employment Service; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : In late 2015 and early 2016, more than two million refugees crossed European borders. Sweden, with its 10 million inhabitants welcomed more than 160,000 refugees, the second highest number per capita in Europe. READ MORE

  5. 15. Costs and Benefits of Delegation : Managerial Discretion as a Bridge between Strategic Management and Corporate Governance

    Author : Yuliya Ponomareva; Sven-Olof Yrjö Collin; Ruth Aguilera; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Managerial discretion; board of directors; agency theory; delegation; control; transition economy; Sweden; Ekonomistyrning; Ekonomistyrning;

    Abstract : This dissertation addresses the question of effective delegation, exploring it through the concept of managerial discretion (i.e., a latitude of managerial actions, which lie in the zone of shareholders’ acceptance). READ MORE