![Jacket](/sites/dl/free/0077098595/title/sgn_ma_sm.jpg) Management Accounting Willie Seal,
University of Essex, UK Ray Garrison,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA Eric Noreen,
INSEAD, France
Management Accounting and the Business Environment
Internet Exerciseswww: IE1-12 In the UK accountants may belong to the Chartered Institute
of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Chartered Association of Certified
Accountants (CACA). Use a Web search engine such as Google to find the CIMA
and CACA web pages. Search these sites to find out about the examinations, salary,
and type of industry/sector where accountants are employed. www: IE1-14 Business Process Reengineering ProSci, a business
process reengineering publishing and research organization, has its web home
page at www.prosci.com. Among other things, this web
site contains a tutorial concerning business process reengineering and a yellow
pages directory of consultants and other specialists in the field. Use information
gleaned from this web site to answer the following questions: - Were most early attempts at business process reengineering
successful?
- Who should be on a business process reengineering team?
- Why is top-management support necessary for a successful implementation
of business process reengineering?
- How can consultants sometimes unintentionally create barriers
to successful implementations of business process reengineering?
www: IE1-15 Just-In-Time (JIT) Suppliers JIT Manufacturing Incorporated
is a just-in-time supplier of medical and industrial products to other companies.
The company maintains a web site at www.jitmfg.com
where the company's products and services are described. - How often can customers pull items from JIT Manufacturing
Incorporated's stocks?
- How does JIT Manufacturing Incorporated ensure that it is
able to fill customer orders?
What information does JIT Manufacturing require from its customers? - In return for its services, what does JIT Manufacturing Incorporated
ask of its customers?
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