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Financial
Accounting and
Management
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The Tensions and Conflicts Between
Uniformity and Uniqueness

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Fredrik Nilsson Anna-Karin

Stockenstrand

Financial Accounting
and
Management Control
The Tensions and Conflicts
Between
Uniformity and Uniqueness

Springer

Fredrik Nilsson

Department of Business
Studies Uppsala
University

Uppsala
Sweden Anna-Karin
Stockenstrand Department
of Business Studies
Uppsala University
Uppsala
Sweden

DOI I 0.1007/978-3-319- I
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Contents

1 The Objectives of Financial Accounting and

Management
Control .........................................................................................................
1.1 Introduction ........................................................................................
1.2 A Stakeholder Perspective
1+3 Stakeholders and Value Creation ...................................................
1 A Management Control and the Demand for
Uniqueness ,
1,5 Financial Accounting and the Demand for
Uniformity . . . .
1,6 The Tensions and Conflicts Between Uniformity
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1 3 Purpose of the Book and Intended Readership .

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1.8 A Note on Methodological Considerations ..................................
1.9 The Organimion of the Book .........................................................

2 Theoretical Foundations
2. l Introduction
2.2 The "Relevance Lost" Debate .........................................................
2..3 Introducing a New Financial Accounting Regime
in the EU .....................................................................................................
2.4 Models and Frameworks for Analysing and
Managing
Relationships Between Accounting Systems
2..4.1 The Performance Pyramid
2.4.2 The Balanced Scorecard ......................................................
2.4.3 Activity-Based Costing
14.4 The Corporate Responsibilities Continuum
..............................................................................................................
14.5 The Integrated Reporting Framework ...........................
2+4.6 The Taipaleenmaki and Ikalleimo
Framework _
2..5 Our Theoretical Framework ........................................................
2.5.1 Demands for Uniqueness ....................................................
2.5.2 Demands for Uniformity .....................................................
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2+5.3 Possible Tensions and Conflicts Between

Uniformity
and Uniqueness .....................................................................
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3 Financial Accounting Standards: Some Examples ...........................

3.1 Introduction
31 Segment Reporting
3.2.1 Background
3.2.2 Tensions and Conflicts Between
Uniformity
and Uniqueness .....................................................................
33 Goodwill Accounting ..........................................................................
3+3.1 Background .........................................................................
3 -3.2. Tensions and Conflicts Between
Uniformity
and Uniqueness .....................................................................
3.4 Business Combinations ...................................................................
3+4.1 Background

3+4.2 Tensions and Conflicts Between

Uniformity
and Uniqueness .....................................................................
3.5 Financial Instruments: Classification and
Measurement .............................................................................................
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3.6 Conclusions and Implications

4 How Financial Accounting Affects Management

Control ..

4..1 Introduction ........................................................................................

4..2 Strategic Planning
4, .l
gment Reporting and Effects on Strategic

Planning,
4:2.2 Goodwill ..A..ccounting and Effects on
Strategic
Plannin2
4.2.3 Business Combinations and Effects on

Strategic
Planning .................................................................................
4.2.4 Financial Instruments and Effects on
Strategic
Planning
43 Budgeting
4,11 Segment Reporting and Effects on
Budgeting...........................................................................................
4.3.2 Goodwill Accounting and Effects on
Budgeting...........................................................................................
4+13 Business Combinations and Effects on
Budgeting
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4A Reporting and Analysis

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Reporting
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45 Rewards and Compensation

4.5,1 Segment Reporting and Effects on Rewards
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4.5.2 Goodwill and Effects on Rewards and Compensation . . . . 103

4.5.3 Business Combinations and Effects cm Rewards and

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4+5.4 Financial Instruments and Effects on Rewards and
C o m p e n s a t i o n
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4.6 Conclusions and Implications ........................................................................108

5 Concluding Reflections .......................................................................................111

.5.1 I n trod uet i on
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5.2 The Framework Revisited
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5.2.1 Demands for Uniqueness
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5+2.2 Demands for Uniformity
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5+3 R e l e v a n c e L o s t o r R e g a i n . e d ? ,
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5.4 Conclusions and Implications ......................................................................124
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