<P>The theory and practice of management accounting should be seen within the context of varieties of global capitalism, to appreciate its role as a ''calculative technology of capitalism'' which is practiced on factory floors, corporate boards, computer networks, spreadsheets, and so forth. This new textbook is the first to introduce the field from a rounded social science perspective.</P><I><P>Strategizing Management Accounting</I> offers a theoretical discussion on management accounting¿s strategic orientation by accommodating two interrelated lines of analyses, from historical and contemporary perspectives. The book illustrates how ''new management accounting'' has evolved into the form in which it exists today in its neoliberal context and how those new management accounting practices have become manifestos for the managers, as calculative technologies of decision making, performance management, control, corporate governance, as well as global governance, and development within va