Performance Management in Retail and the Consumer Goods Industry
Best Practices and Case Studies
Editors: Buttkus, Michael, Eberenz, Ralf (Eds.)
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- Explains specific accounting concepts for retail businesses and consumer goods companies
- Offers a valuable contribution to the available literature on management concepts for practitioners
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This book offers essential insights into various management concepts for retail and consumer packaged goods companies. Addressing a range of topics in the field of performance management, it presents concepts for management control, management reporting, planning & forecasting, as well as digitization-related aspects. The contributing authors share valuable lessons learned from real-world consulting projects and present innovative approaches to successful and effective management control at retail and consumer packaged goods companies.
- About the authors
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Michael Buttkus is a partner at Horváth & Partners, where he heads the retail and consumer goods competence center. He has extensive practical experience in the areas of performance management, management accounting and finance, strategic business management, and process and organizational management.
Prof. Ralf Eberenz is a senior advisor at Horváth & Partners and teaches business administration at the NORDAKADEMIE Graduate School in Elmshorn, Germany. He gained comprehensive practical experience in the consumer goods industry in various leadership positions at Beiersdorf. His major areas of expertise are strategic business management, management accounting, risk management, and mergers & acquisitions.
- Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Understanding the Benefits of German Controlling and Management Accounting
Pages 3-9
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Cost Accounting Systems in Germany and the USA: A Cross-National Comparison and Empirical Evidence
Pages 11-26
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Current Challenges for Consumer Goods and Retail Companies and Their Implications for Controlling
Pages 29-47
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Digitization of Corporate Performance Management: Revolution or Evolution?
Pages 49-65
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Approaches for Steering Multichannel Retail Companies
Pages 69-84
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Performance Management in Retail and the Consumer Goods Industry
- Book Subtitle
- Best Practices and Case Studies
- Editors
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- Michael Buttkus
- Ralf Eberenz
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-12730-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-12730-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-12729-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-12732-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 442
- Number of Illustrations
- 161 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
- Topics