Controlling Collaboration between Firms
How to build and Maintain Successful Relationships with External Partners

“Accounting and Management Control tools for managing your Strategic Business Partners”

Angelo Ditillo (Author), Ariela Caglio (Author)

9780750681315, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 24 September 2008

218 pages
23.4 x 16.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg

Shows how accounting information and control mechanisms are used in decision-making, planning and control at an inter-organizational level and how accounting tools and techniques may support the development and management of external relationships with strategic partners.

In "global companies" the use of management control mechanisms has increasingly become decentralised from the management accounting department, this book covers these issues. In all functional areas (marketing, operations, human resources, etc.), those who are expected to be able to analyse and interpret accounting information collected from external partners, have to exercise cost control to ensure that profit targets are achieved and understand.

1. The formation and management of inter-organizational agreements
2. Levers for controlling inter-organizational relationships
3. Using accounting information for performance measurement and control
4. How to build and maintain successful inter-organizational relationships: the experience of fashion firms

Subject Areas: Business communication & presentation [KJP], Management accounting & bookkeeping [KFCM]