What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / Sriya Kumarasinghe and Roger Willett

We discuss some perceived shortcomings of management accounting in the light of the financial crisis of 2008. We describe current trends in management accounting thinking and Japanese perspectives on the discipline. Our main focus is on the lack of reliable measurement of financial risk and its cons...

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Main Authors: Kumarasinghe, Sriya, Roger, Willett
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Language:English
Published: Accounting Research Institute (ARI) 2010
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10804/
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description We discuss some perceived shortcomings of management accounting in the light of the financial crisis of 2008. We describe current trends in management accounting thinking and Japanese perspectives on the discipline. Our main focus is on the lack of reliable measurement of financial risk and its consequences. The importance of collaborative multi-disciplinary research through partnerships between academics and practitioners is emphasised.
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spelling uitm-108042022-07-05T02:12:31Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10804/ What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / Sriya Kumarasinghe and Roger Willett apmaj Kumarasinghe, Sriya Roger, Willett Finance and cycles. Financial crises. Convergence (Economics) Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance We discuss some perceived shortcomings of management accounting in the light of the financial crisis of 2008. We describe current trends in management accounting thinking and Japanese perspectives on the discipline. Our main focus is on the lack of reliable measurement of financial risk and its consequences. The importance of collaborative multi-disciplinary research through partnerships between academics and practitioners is emphasised. Accounting Research Institute (ARI) 2010-12 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10804/1/10804.pdf Kumarasinghe, Sriya and Roger, Willett (2010) What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / Sriya Kumarasinghe and Roger Willett. (2010) Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Asia-Pacific_Management_Accounting_Journal.html>, 5 (2): 1. pp. 1-10. ISSN 1675-3194 https://apmaj.uitm.edu.my/index.php/archive
spellingShingle Finance and cycles. Financial crises. Convergence (Economics)
Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
Kumarasinghe, Sriya
Roger, Willett
What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / Sriya Kumarasinghe and Roger Willett
title What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / Sriya Kumarasinghe and Roger Willett
title_full What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / Sriya Kumarasinghe and Roger Willett
title_fullStr What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / Sriya Kumarasinghe and Roger Willett
title_full_unstemmed What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / Sriya Kumarasinghe and Roger Willett
title_short What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / Sriya Kumarasinghe and Roger Willett
title_sort what can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn impending financial crises? / sriya kumarasinghe and roger willett
topic Finance and cycles. Financial crises. Convergence (Economics)
Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10804/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10804/