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Chapter 5:
Direct & Indirect Control Costs
Merchant and Van der Stede: Management Control Systems Pearson Education Limited 2003
Benefit of controls
A higher probability that people will both work hard and direct
their energies to serve the organizations interests.
Costs of controls
Direct out-of-pocket costs
Easy to quantify: cost of cash bonuses, internal audit staffs, etc.;
Difficult to quantify: time spend on planning and budgeting activities,
on pre-action reviews, etc.
Harmful side-effects
Behavioral displacement
Gamesmanship
Operating delays
Negative attitudes.
Merchant and Van der Stede: Management Control Systems Pearson Education Limited 2003
Merchant and Van der Stede: Management Control Systems Pearson Education Limited 2003
Gamesmanship ...
Data manipulation
Merchant and Van der Stede: Management Control Systems Pearson Education Limited 2003
Merchant and Van der Stede: Management Control Systems Pearson Education Limited 2003
Merchant and Van der Stede: Management Control Systems Pearson Education Limited 2003
Merchant and Van der Stede: Management Control Systems Pearson Education Limited 2003