Hardbound. Advances in Management Accounting (AIMA) publishes well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to both practitioners and academicians. As a respected professional journal, AIMA is well poised to meet their information needs. Featured in Volume 11 are articles on manager's perceptions of the physical reality of the firm's utilization of its physical assets, the perspectives used in analytical and empirical cost system research, operationalplanning and control involving activity-based costing, effects of benchmarking and incentives on organizational performance, organizational control and work team empowerment, budget slack creation in organizations, taxonomy for the mass customization approach, top management involvement in R&D budget setting, role of self-interest in project continuation decisions, agency theory determinants of managers' adverse selection in resource
