Essays about: "role of management accountants"

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  1. 1. Balancing the books and the planet: A single-case study investigating the relation between sustainability involvement and the occupational identity of management accountants

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Hedda Jonasson Blank; Jakob Söderblom; [2023]
    Keywords : Occupational identity; Sustainability reporting; Management accountant practices; Aspirational identities; Role enlargement;

    Abstract : Through practice of a single-case study, this paper aims to shed new light on the interdisciplinary area of management accountants' approach to, and involvement in, sustainability-related activities. Through the application of identity theory, with particular influence from Hughes' (1951) findings of a moral division of labour and Thornborrow and Brown's (2009) concept of aspirational identities, we show the existence of an interdependent relationship between the occupational identity of management accountants, and their engagement towards sustainability reporting and adjacent activities. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Management Accounting Department's Data Scientists: The Intermediary in the Business Analytics Network

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Johan Rudelius; [2022]
    Keywords : Business Analytics; Management Accounting; Data Scientist; Jurisdictions; Data Warehouse;

    Abstract : Business analytics involves tooling, statistics, and mathematics for decision-making and reporting in the data-driven business era. It is an interdisciplinary phenomenon in which management accountants work together with data professionals. READ MORE

  4. 3. IT identity construction of Management Accountants: A multiple case study about the influence of digitalization on Management Accountants' identity

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Johannes Bock; Daniel Friedrich; [2021]
    Keywords : Management Accounting; IT identity; Identity work; Identity regulation; Information systems;

    Abstract : This paper examines how Management Accountants' IT identities are constructed in an organizational context. Current research claims that IT systems affect the role as well as the required skill set of Management Accountants and thereby change their occupational role to the forward-looking role of a "Business Partner" (Goretzki et al. READ MORE

  5. 4. Management accountants´ participation in strategic management processes: multiple-case study

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Yulia Sivertsson; [2021]
    Keywords : accountants; Strategic management processes; Strategic decision making; Business partner; Strategic management accounting; Power knowledge;

    Abstract : Aim – The aim of this study is to explore how Management accountants (MAs) participate in strategic management processes nowadays and to explain reasons for potential differences in involvement of MAs in strategic management processes between different organizations.Method - The study is based on a multi-case study approach conducted among three independent companies in Sweden. READ MORE

  6. 5. How initiatives towards transforming the Role of Controllers play out – A field study examining the changing role of controllers at Volvo Cars

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Victoria Andersson; Karin Enström; [2020-07-01]
    Keywords : Controllers; Management Accountants Accounting; Institutional Theory; Institutional Environment; Institutional Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship; Digital Transformation; Big Data and Business Intelligence Analytics;

    Abstract : Background and Purpose: As the digital transformation alters organizations the controlling profession changes and boundaries are blurring. Controllers are moving away from a beancounter image and are evolving into business partners with an organizational value-adding focus. READ MORE