Strategic managerial accounting : a primer for the IT professional / Gopal Saxena.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saxena, Gopal, author.

Series:

Managerial accounting collection.

Managerial Accounting Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Managerial accounting.

Strategic planning--Accounting.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Business Expert Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book, probably the first written from the perspective of software professionals, attempts to introduce them to the mysteries of strategic managerial accounting (SMA). The common view in the industry is that "accounting is for the accountants", despite the fact that IT professionals are regularly confronted by financial situations such as project pricing, performance measurement, risk estimation, costs allocation etc. While it is desirable and even necessary that every proposal be vetted by respective specialists, the speed and reliability of the process could improve if the people who originate the proposal had knowledge of the fundamentals that go into the decision making. Unfortunately most books on management accounting, whether strategic or otherwise, are written from the perspective of the manufacturing industry. The IT and services industry on the other hand has a unique cost structure, quite distinct from manufacturing, which needs to be dealt with from a different perspective. This book focuses on SMA in context of the IT software industry, and seeks to equip the IT professional with some basics of SMA to assist them in making more informed decisions.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Note on the IT Software Industry

Chapter 1: Introduction to Strategic Managerial Accounting

Chapter 2: Nature of Costs

Chapter 3: Allocation of Costs

Chapter 4: Capital Budgeting and Enterprise Risk Management

Chapter 5: Performance Metrics for High Growth Software Service Companies

Chapter 6: Tracking and Measuring Innovation

Chapter 7: Measuring Company Performance and Survivability in the Online Environment

Chapter 8: Employee Performance-Significance and Evaluation

Appendix 1: Case Study

Appendix 2: Responsibility Centers

Appendix 3: Multisided Platforms: Business and Revenue Models of Online Companies

Notes

References

Index

Adpage

Backcover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781631575846

1631575848