About the Book

The introduction of financial controls in the corporate enterprises was necessitated by the funds crunch faced by corporate majors. The public sector has accepted the need for introducing financial controls for overcoming resource deficit and superior utilisation of available resources. Financial controls is an evolving term and includes techniques such as internal audit, business budgeting, transfer pricing, financial management information system, and responsibility accounting. The present book incorporates discussions at length on the first two techniques and studies their application in the context of the state level public enterprises through live case studies. It also throws light on the potential of internal audit and budgeting as change management tools for the corporate world and public sector.

This book would be useful for the students of post-graduate courses in business administration, financial management, chartered accountancy, cost accountancy, and company secretaryship.

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About the Author / Editor

R.K. Mishra is currently Professor and Dean (Research) at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. He has taught post-graduate classes for two decades and guided many research scholars. He has undertaken many institutional researches and consultancy projects on various aspects of public enterprises, public systems and finance. He has been a management consultant to many organisations at home and abroad.

R. Nandagopal is Associate Professor at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. He obtained his Ph.D in Commerce from the University of Madras. Taught at the Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Dr. Nandagopal specializes in financial controls and has done pioneering work on SLPEs. He has also published prolifically.

Ch.Lakshmi Kumari is currently Research Associate at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. She has been associated with various training programmes organised for the central and state level public enterprises.

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