Successful Foreign Acquisitions The Pivotal Role of the Management Accountant

Successful Foreign Acquisitions investigates two cross-border acquisitions with the aim of looking at the role of management accounting in the process and drawing useful lessons about the acquistion and integration process for practioners. The authors: *identify the acquisition strategy and examine its added value *evaluate the strategy in both cultural and economic terms *consider the required management control systems needed to implement the strategy and compare this with the actual control systems used * review what performance measures would be needed to encourage managers to deliver and compare these with the actual measures introduced * consider how environmental and cultural differences impact on this processAppleyard, Tony is the author of 'Successful Foreign Acquisitions The Pivotal Role of the Management Accountant', published 2005 under ISBN 9780750661720 and ISBN 0750661720.