Strategic management accounting examines the decision-making linked with the business operations and strategic work of financial administration as support for the same. This concept model is essential within modern controller work.
Strategic management accounting is an internationally renowned area of special expertise, part of TSE’s Department of Accounting and Finance. The research that has to be done in the profiling area gives direct support to the Management Accounting instruction given within the department.
Research projects
Strategic management accounting research is focusing on the Innovation, Competitiveness, and the Roles of Management Control Systems project. This project represents a combined undertaking with Copenhagen Business School Management Accounting researchers, and is being supported during the years 2008–2010 with a considerable investment from the Academy of Finland.
Also during the years 2000-2002, the Financial Administration Practices and their Development project received substantial funding from the Academy of Finland. One of the group’s researchers is doing his doctoral thesis with financing from the UK’s CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants).
All Strategic management accounting researchers have other research projects also in progress; for instance, six doctoral thesis studies.
Partners
Strategic management accounting researchers function within a comprehensive and active partner network. Partners include many companies, e.g., via case studies.
Cooperation is engaged in with many Finnish universities: for example, Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Jyväskylä. Cooperative relations with foreign universities are worthy of note. Partners include, for instance, Copenhagen Business School; Manchester Business School, University of Oxford/Saïd Business School; Michigan State University and the University of Technology, Sydney.
In addition, collaboration goes on with EIASM (European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management) and CIMA. Strategic management accounting researchers also enjoy significant commissions of trust with the European Accounting Association and the American Accounting Association.
Contact persons
Professor Kari Lukka
Professor Markus Granlund