In recent years, cultural organisations have introduced and tested new management tools to achieve their institutional goals of efficiency, effectiveness and social cohesion. This process has been widely linked to New Public Management for public sector cultural organisations, but the...

One way of supporting the accounting standard-setting process and to facilitatethe access to those standards is through the implementation of modern accounting reportingmethods using web technology. In this regard SMEs are under stress of two major factors:implementation of accounting standards...

Italian banks profitability represents a focal point both for top management and supervisory authorities. It is strongly necessary to focus on: global revenues, assets composition and pricing policies; managing actively credit risk, rationalizing operating costs. Objectives can be achieved...

Recent techniques and shifts in the environment are often foreseen as leading management accountants to adopt a business orientation. However, empirical evidence pointing to fundamental shifts in the roles played by management accountants remains relatively scarce. The authors explore this...

Mit ihren vier Perspektiven - finanzielle Perspektive, Kundenperspektive, interne Prozeßperspektive sowie Lern- und Entwicklungsperspektive - informiert die Balanced Scorecard in einem ausgewogenen Bild über die aktuelle Zielerreichung und die zukünftigen Erfolgsmöglichkeiten eines...

Die theoretisch-konzeptionelle Würdigung der Balanced Scorecard steht trotz ihres Siegeszu-ges in der Praxis noch immer in den Anfängen. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt das Shareholder Value-Konzept, das Stakeholder-Konzept und die Systemtheorie als theoretisch-konzeptionel-len Bezugsrahmen...

Obtaining performance in private hospitals require a proper management of costs and implementing a situation for performance monitoring. The implementation of a cost calculation method in hospitals is a complex process that must take into account the particularities of the activity in health...

The past century, through the development of data collection systems has allowed the emergence of score functions for measuring the bankruptcy risk for some sectors of activity. The use of these indicators on a large scale in matrix type reports such as BSC or the dashboard of business partners...

The primary purpose of this paper is to present the actual role of accounting information systems. After the description of the theoretical background I state the main characteristics of modern accounting systems, and explain how these software packages can efficiently help not only the work of...

The internal rate of return (IRR) is often used by managers and practitioners for investment decisions. Unfortunately, it has serious flaws: (i) multiple real-valued IRRs may arise, (ii) complex-valued IRRs may arise, (iii) the IRR is, in general, incompatible with the net present value (NPV) in...