The Controller's Function: The Work of the Managerial Accountant

Take control and stay competitive in today's market

The Controller's Function, Third Edition is the go-to resource where new and established professionals can find the most up-to-date information for enhancing their performance and sustaining their company's competitive advantage.

In this new Third Edition, coauthors Janice Roehl-Anderson and Steven Bragg provide a revised and expanded version of their indispensable operations reference work. Accurate and relevant, The Controller's Function gives CFOs and managerial accountants a complete overview of the multifaceted job of the controller—from the most basic "bread-and-butter" aspects to the most advanced.

From describing essential competencies to detailing the more sophisticated skills like activity-based and target costing, disaster recovery planning, and outsourcing, The Controller's Function offers numerous real-world examples, expertly balancing both the technical and managerial sides of the job. Busy professionals can quickly access the latest information on:

• Controls best practices
• Shared services trends
• Outsourcing implications
• Performance measurements
• Cost of capital
• Tax strategy
• Financial strategy
• Just-in-time accounting
• Reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission
• Customer relationship management
• Checklists for new controllers

Janice M. Roehl-Anderson, MBA, is a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP, with more than twenty years of consulting experience. She specializes in information systems security; financial and cost accounting system analysis, design, selection, and implementation; and long-range information system planning.

Steven M. Bragg, CPA, CMA, CIA, CPIM, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young. He is the author of nineteen books, including Accounting Best Practices, Third Edition and Essentials of Payroll: Management and Accounting, both from Wiley.