16 December 2005
CIMA is delighted to announce that Professor Joan Luft, of Michigan State University, will be delivering the 2006 CIMA Visiting Professor Lecture.
The lecture, entitled “Innovations, fads and long term value in management accounting”, is to be delivered at CIMA offices, London, on Thursday 26th January 2006 at 6:00pm.
Over the last 15 years, management accountants have seen the rise and fall of numerous innovations and new techniques. Professor Joan Luft will be speaking about which of these developments have had the staying power to make a positive impact on business and which are simply fads. Professor Luft will discuss whether innovations such as activity-based costing, balanced scorecards, economic value added, and strategic management accounting, have provided the basis for productive partnerships, between accountants and managers, or whether they are merely fads.
Places for the CIMA Visiting Professor Lecture are strictly limited but if you are interested, please contact Tim Porter in CIMA’s Technical Department. Tel: 0208 849 2220 or research@cimaglobal.com
Professor Luft’s visit is in association with Manchester Business School, one of the UK and Europe’s top business schools, where she will be speaking on Tuesday 31st January 2006. http://www.mbs.ac.uk/
1. Joan Luft is Professor of Accounting at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in accounting from Cornell University, after prior academic work in accounting and history, and professional experience in accounting and financial management at health care and medical research organisations. Her research interests focus on the use of accounting information in management decision-making, and her work blends insights from both economic theory and psychology. She was co-recipient of the AICPA-AAA Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award in 1996 and recipient of the AAA Management Accounting Section Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature in 1999. Professor Luft has served as Associate Editor of The Accounting Review and is currently Editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research. She has published numerous articles in the international research journals.
2. CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) is a leading professional body that offers an internationally recognised qualification in management accountancy, focussing on accounting in business. It is the fastest growing UK based membership body, in terms of members, in both the UK and worldwide and is the voice of over 150,000 members and students in 156 countries. CIMA is responsible for the education and training of management accountants who work in industry, commerce and not-for-profit and has more members in the public sector than any other UK based body. CIMA prides itself on the commercial relevance of its syllabus, which is in tune with the activities of high performance organisations, and evolves continually reflecting the latest developments in global business. It is committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards of members and students, and to maintaining public confidence in management accountancy. For more information about CIMA, please visit http://www.cimaglobal.com/
3. Manchester Business School is one of the UK and Europe’s top business schools. It is dedicated to a practical and internationally focused approach to learning to develop the business leaders of the future. http://www.mbs.ac.uk/
