Strategic Management Accounting: Implementation and Control

This paper discusses the design characteristics management accounting systems should have to be useful for strategic planning and control and provides brief introductions to strategic variance analysis, profit-linked performance measurement models and balanced scorecard. It shows two multi-period, multiproduct models are specified, can be related to Porter's strategy framework and cost and revenue drivers, and can be used to support strategic planning, control and cost management.

• Alireza Azimi Sani

• Accounting
• balanced scorecard
• profit-linked
• strategic management
• variance analysis.

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