Supplemental Readings and Practice Problems for ‘What Counts and What Gets Counted’

94 Pages Posted: 20 Feb 2018 Last revised: 5 Apr 2022

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Jeremiah W. Bentley

Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Date Written: April 4, 2022

Abstract

Full paper is available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2427106

“What Counts and What Gets Counted” (Bloomfield 2016) is an innovative way of teaching managerial accounting. The 1st edition of the book won the 2014 Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education, and has only gotten better since then. However, the book suffers from two significant limitations. First, the book was intended primarily for MBA students, not for accounting undergrads. As a result, the book doesn’t go into sufficient depth on some of the technical topics that accounting majors need to understand. Second, the book lacks a bank of practice problems and solutions for students to use as they are learning material.

Here I present two supplemental readings and a set of practice problems that can be used to supplement “What Counts and What Gets Counted” and make it more appropriate for use by undergraduate accounting majors.

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Keywords: managerial reporting, accounting, performance reporting, measurement, economics, compensation, strategy, Balanced Scorecard, Two-Stage Costing, Standard Costing, Death Spiral

JEL Classification: A1, A2, D2, D7, L2, M4

Suggested Citation

Bentley, Jeremiah W., Supplemental Readings and Practice Problems for ‘What Counts and What Gets Counted’ (April 4, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3117074 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3117074

Jeremiah W. Bentley (Contact Author)

Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst ( email )

Department of Accounting
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

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