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What is Balanced Scorecard

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
An integrated strategic performance management framework that helps organisations translate strategic objectives into relevant performance measures, by linking nonfinancial measures with a financial perspective in four areas of performance concerned with: financials, internal process, customers and innovation & learning.
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Managerial Tools and Techniques for Decision Making
Davood Askarany (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch188
Abstract
The main aim of this chapter is to explain what considered as managerial tools and techniques for decision making in the area of management accounting and how they developed and evolved over the time. This chapter is intended to help us document the innovation, evolution and the adoption of a variety of relatively new management accounting techniques and practices in organisations. The chapter also looks at primary tasks/services performed by managerial techniques and tools to capture a wider range of techniques/tools that contribute to the conduction of managerial tasks/services but may not be listed as managerial tools in the literature.
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