The 36th annual MARG Conference
Thursday 16 April 2015, London School of Economics and Political Science.

There were two themes for the 2015 conference: The State and Future of Management Accounting and Management Accounting Principles.  

MARG 2015 Programme
MARG 2015 Review

Morning Session:

• Marc Wouters, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Amsterdam 
  Do Others, Perhaps, Know More About MA Than MAs and MARs?
  
• Adrian Ryan, Independent Consultant
  25 Years in Finance, the More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
  
  To download podcast, please click here.
  

Afternoon Session 1:

• Stephen Ibbotson, Rick Payne and Phillip Smith, ICAEW
  Business Performance Management: Never Mind the Frameworks, Feel the Tensions
• Naomi Smith, CIMA
  Utility of Management Accounting Principles in Practice
  
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Afternoon Session 2:

• Teemu Malmi, Aalto University
  Should we Have Management Accounting Principles? - An Academic View
• Management Accounting Principles: Break-out Session and Reporting Back
• Michael Bromwich, LSE
  
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The 35th annual MARG Conference took place on Thursday 27 March 2014 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The theme for the 2014 conference was 'Management Accounting and Strategic Partnerships.'   

Podcasts of all presentations can be accessed here.

MARG 2014 Programme
MARG 2014 Review

Morning Session

• David Otley and Chris Ford (Lancaster University Management School)
  Princes, Property Developers, Commandos and Charities: Lessons from an unusual Strategic Alliance.
• Henri Dekker (VU University Amsterdam) Managing Risky Relations.

Afternoon Session

• Alasdair Macnab (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) and Falconer Mitchell(University of Edinburgh) Outcome Costing.
• Warwick Hunt (PwC UK) The Role of the CFO in Strategic Partnerships.
• Panel Discussion: Do Strategic Alliances Suggest New Strategies and New Accounting Henri Dekker, George Grosz, Alasdair Macnab and Kenneth Simmonds Chairman: Michael Bromwich.

Evening Session (CIMA Distinguished Practitioner Lecture)

• Keith Luck (CIMA Vice President) How Management Accounting and Strategic Partnerships Combine to Deliver  Success - A Practitioner’s Perspective.

The 34th annual MARG Conference took place on Thursday 18 April 2013 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The theme for the 2013 conference was 'Management Accounting and Corporate Governance: New Issues - New Directions.' 

Podcasts of all presentations can be accessed here.    

MARG 2013 Programme
MARG 2013 Review

Morning Session

• Laura Spira (Oxford Brookes University) Corporate Governance and Management - a Blurred Boundary?
• Michael Power (London School of Economics and Political Science) Searching for Risk Culture.

Afternoon Session

• Martin Thomas (Call4Change) Measuring Thriving Organisational Performance in Turbulent Times. 
• Alfred Wagenhofer (University of Graz, Austria) Characteristics of Accounting Information that Serves the Board of Directors.
• Panel Discussion:Management Accounting and Corporate Governance
  Gillian Lees, Michael Power, Martin Thomas and Alfred Wagenhofer.
  Chairman: Michael Bromwich.

Evening Session (ICAEW Distinguished Practitioner Lecture)

• Philip Gregory, Senior independent non-executive Director, Hansard Global plc. The Effect of Changing Governance on the Finance Function; Some Personal Observations and Experiences.

The 33rd annual MARG Conference took place on 22 March 2012.

The theme for the 2012 conference was 'Management Accounting Leadership: Global Challenges - Local Responses.'

The CIMA Distingished Praticioner Lecture was hosted by Phillie Karkaria, Executive Director of Tata Realty and Infrastructure Ltd from Tata.

Podcasts of all presentations can be accessed here.

Morning Session

• Robert Hodgkinson and Kirstin Gillon (ICAEW), The Finance Function and Information Technology: A Bigger Picture.

• Josep Bisbe (ESADE Ramon Llull University), Diversity in Culture and Environmental Dynamism as Key Challenges for Performance Measurement Systems in Global Firms.

Afternoon Session

• Andrea Dossi (SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University), Control Leadership in MNC's: Global Value based Reporting - Local Strategies.

• Panel Discussion: How Can Management Accounting Leadership Improve? Josep Bisbe, Andrea Dossi, Ian Herbert and Robert Hodgkinson. Chairman: Michael Bromwich.

Evening Session (CIMA Distinguished Practitioner Lecture)

• Phillie Karkaria (Exectutive Director of Tata Realty and Infrastructure Ltd), Global Challeges, Local Solutions and Management Accounting Leadership. 

The 32nd annual MARG Conference took place on 31 March 2011.

The theme for the 2011 conference was "Cost Management Strategies: Shifting Gears." The ICAEW Distingished Praticioner Lecture was hosted by Andrew Shilston, FCO, Rolls Royce.

Podcasts of all presentations are available to download.

Morning Session

• Professor John Cullen (University of Sheffield), Innovation in the NHS - Can Accounting Stimulate and Facilitate Innovative Change?
• Professor Zhang Xinmin (University of International Business and Economics, Beijing), Corporate Governance and Strategic Cost Management: A View from China. Transcript.  Slides.
• To listen to the podcast of the morning session, please click here.

Afternoon Session

• Robin Bellis-Jones (Director of Bellis-Jones Hill Group), Costing in the NHS - From Measurement to Management.
• Panel Discussion: Cost Management Strategies: Shifting Gears. Robin Bellis-Jones, David Cooper, John Cullen and Peter Simons. 
• To listen to the afternoon session podcast, please click here.

Evening Session (ICAEW Distinguished Practitioner Lecture)

•  Andrew Shilston (FCO, Rolls Royce plc), Cost Management: Shifting Gears.

• To listen to the ICAEW Distiguished Practitioner Lecture podcast, please click here.

The 31st annual MARG Conference took place on 22 April 2010.

The theme for the 2010 conference was "Global Change and the Continuing Transformation of the Finance Function." The Distingished Praticioner Lecture was hosted by George Glass, CIMA Deputy President.

Morning Session

• Professor Al Bhimani (LSE), Global Changes: The Impact on Management  Accounting. Please click here for podcast.
• Dr Philip Smith (Turnaround Specialist/Visiting Fellow, Cranfield), Carolyn Bresh  (Director, Everymind Ltd.) and Rick Payne (Finance and Management Faculty, ICAEW), The Finance Function - Always the Same and Always Different. Please click here for podcast.

Afternoon Session

• Patrick Fenton (Head of Corporate Financial Management Practice, KPMG), Information or Intelligence: Management Information and Business Intelligence.
• Dr Ian Herbert (Loughborough University), Shared Service Centres and the Evolving Role of the Management Accountant: Maintaining Employability for the 'Martini' Workers. Please click here for podcast

Evening Session (CIMA Distinguished Practitioner Lecture)

• Distinguished Practitioner Lecture, George Glass, CIMA Deputy President, In a Realigned World: the Future of Management Accounting. Please click here for podcast.

The 2009 conference at LSE celebrated the 30th anniversary of the founding of the MARG conference.

The theme for this year's London conference was "Innovation and Sustainability in Management Accounting." The keynote speakers were Sir Michael Peat (Principal Private Secretary to TRH The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall), Professor Anthony Hopwood (Saïd Business School) and Professor Antonio Davila (IESE Business School).

Morning Session

• Professor Antonio Davila (IESE Business School, University of Navarra) The Role of Management Accounting in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
• Dr Alex Bowen (LSE, Principal Research Fellow Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment) Sustainability, the Economics of Climate
  Change and Implications for Businesses.

Afternoon Session

• Dr Andrew Holt (Kingston University) Environmental Management Accounting: Empirical Evidence from the UK Manufacturing Sector.
• Professor Anthony Hopwood (Saïd Business School, Oxford) Some Thoughts on Trying to Account for Sustainability.

Late Afternoon Session

• Mark Bromley (EDF Energy) Reporting Sustainability - A View from the Front Line.
• Professor Michael Bromwich (LSE) and Professor Alnoor Bhimani (LSE) MARG Conference: Past, Present and Future.

Evening Session (ICAEW Distinguished Practitioner Lecture)

• Sir Michael Peat (Principal Private Secretary to TRH The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall) Accounting for Sustainability: 21st Century Problems, 20th Century Solutions.