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The Information Mosaic (Harvard Business School Series in Accounting & Control) [Hardcover]

Sharon M. McKinnon (Author), William J. Bruns (Author)

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Series: Harvard Business School Series in Accounting & Control | Publication Date: May 1, 1992

Informally gathered information that's raw and immediate has a profound effect on what managers do. Understanding how managers actually obtain and use the information they need can help organizations improve their accounting and information systems. The authors of this text talked to managers in production, marketing and other functional areas to discover what information they need and how to obtain it. Their findings indicate that managers develop and rely upon their own information systems, which do not involve elaborate technology, such as direct observation, relationships and frequent contacts both within and outside of their firms. Recognizing that the challenge to accounting and management information specialists is to incorporate within their systems more of the data that effective managers actually use, the authors make specific recommendations about how to convey relevant and timely information to managers.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } Informally gathered information that's raw and immediate has a profound effect on what managers do. Understanding how managers actually obtain and use the information they need can help organizations improve their accounting and information systems. The authors of this text talked to managers in production, marketing and other functional areas to discover what information they need and how to obtain it. Their findings indicate that managers develop and rely upon their own information systems, which do not involve elaborate technology, such as direct observation, relationships and frequent contacts both within and outside of their firms. Recognizing that the challenge to accounting and management information specialists is to incorporate within their systems more of the data that effective managers actually use, the authors make specific recommendations about how to convey relevant and timely information to managers.

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Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business Press (May 1, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0875843174
ISBN-13: 978-0875843179
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

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5.0 out of 5 stars Accounting hype!!!, April 18, 2000

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The authors research the claims of the accounting profession about the importance of knowing the "accounting language" to make it in business. But find it not to be so. The information mosaic a manager truly uses is (1) close to where the action is in the different functional units of the organization and (2) tied to primary units of activity and not the monetary units used in the mainstream accounting practice.

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THE Piedmont of North Carolina is home to numerous manufacturing facilities that act as twentieth-century intruders among the region's peaceful pine forests and tobacco fields. Read the first page

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