The Changing Role of the Management Accountants

This book presents a comprehensive and holistic study on being a financial practitioner today. Using a practice theory approach, the book analyzes the work life stories of four financial practitioners who have been working between 13 and 25 years during the period of 1973 to 2015 and explains how their work identities are constituted in the practices throughout the years. It clarifies the public image of the management accountants and provides a better understanding of today's management accountantswho they are and how they are formedwhile theorizing on how to develop the next generation.

Combines theory and practice Uses a grounded biographical research method Advances the debate on accounting education for the next generation of management accountants

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Panida Chotiyanon is a finance lecturer at Thammasat University, Thailand. She is a former CFO and a veteran finance practitioner with expertise in management accounting and control practice in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, steel, and fast-moving consumer goods industries. Her research interests include management accountants, management accounting practice, corporate finance careers, and practice theory.
Vassili Joannidès de Lautour is an Associate Professor of Management Control at Grenoble École de Management, France and Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research interests concern the religious foundations of contemporary accounting technologies and practices. Vassili is also an associate editor of the Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change and a board member of numerous other journals.

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This book presents a comprehensive and holistic study on being a financial practitioner today. Using a practice theory approach, the book analyzes the work life stories of four financial practitioners who have been working between 13 and 25 years during the period of 1973 to 2015 and explains how their work identities are constituted in the practices throughout the years. It clarifies the public image of the management accountants and provides a better understanding of today s management accountants who they are and how they are formed while theorizing on how to develop the next generation.

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PART I: The Emerging New Role and the Self-Orienting Process.- Chapter 1. The Emergence of Business-Oriented Role of ****Management Accountants.- Chapter 2. Self-Orienting Process and Schatzki's Lens.- Chapter 3: Business Partner Developing Model (BPMD).- PART II. Self-Orienting Process: the Lifelong Experiences.- Chapter 4: Corporate Financial Service Career.- Chapter 5: Financial Planning and Analysis Career.- Chapter 6: Commercial Finance Career.-Chapter 7: Management Control Career.- PART III: Crafting an Orientation Program.- Chapter 8: Business Partner Development Program.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.