Cases in Corporate Financial Planning and Control provides a set of contemporary cases to supplement managerial accounting and finance courses at the senior undergraduate or graduate level. These class-tested cases, written during the 1990s, reflect many of the current challenges facing today's actual organizations. Chapters before each set of cases briefly overview relevant concepts. Cases vary in length from one to twenty pages. The shortest cases illustrate only a single concept, while longer ones reflect the ambiguity of real life. Cases in the later chapters build on concepts introduced earlier. Several cases involve organizations on the cutting edge of technology, experimenting with innovative techniques or management styles, or struggling to survive in a dynamic, global marketplace. All of the cases demonstrate how ambitions, values, beliefs, and even misconceptions of key employees in an organization influence financial planning and control. (text cited from www.amazon.com)