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Budgeting -- an unnecessary evil

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Almost 30 years ago -- in 1970 -- the largest commercial bank in Sweden, Handelsbanken, was in a major crisis. Profitability was low and the bank was in conflict with the authorities. As a result of the crisis the executive director left the bank, as did several of the top officials. At this point the board of the bank asked me to become executive director. At that time I was head of a provincial bank in the northern part of Sweden - Sundsvallsbanken. I had been at that bank for ten years. Before that I was a professional economist, head of a major research institute and an associate professor at the University of Stockholm. I did not have any practical business experience and knew nothing about banking, but after 10 years in Sundsvallsbanken, I had learned a lot and developed some firm ideas about how to run a bank with a large network of branch offices.

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  • Wallander, Jan, 1999. "Budgeting -- an unnecessary evil," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 15(4), pages 405-421, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:15:y:1999:i:4:p:405-421
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    1. Prabhu Sivabalan & Peter Booth & Teemu Malmi & David A. Brown, 2009. "An exploratory study of operational reasons to budget," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 49(4), pages 849-871, December.
    2. Mareike Bergmann & Christian Brück & Thorsten Knauer & Anja Schwering, 2020. "Digitization of the budgeting process: determinants of the use of business analytics and its effect on satisfaction with the budgeting process," Journal of Management Control: Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung, Springer, vol. 31(1), pages 25-54, April.
    3. Sebastian D. Becker & Martin Messner & Utz Schäffer, 2020. "The Interplay of Core and Peripheral Actors in the Trajectory of an Accounting Innovation: Insights from beyond Budgeting," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 37(4), pages 2224-2256, December.
    4. Manfred Hoefle & Hans Marquart & Reinhardt Schnopp, 2008. "ZP-Praxis: Fehlentwicklungen und Therapien bei Planung und Budgetierung," Metrika: International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 233-247, August.
    5. Lingnau, Volker & Mayer, Andreas & Schönbohm, Avo, 2004. "Beyond Budgeting - Notwendige Kulturrevolution für Unternehmen und Controller?," Beiträge zur Controlling-Forschung 6, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Lehrstuhl für Unternehmensrechnung und Controlling.
    6. Tiina Henttu-Aho & Janne J�rvinen, 2013. "A Field Study of the Emerging Practice of Beyond Budgeting in Industrial Companies: An Institutional Perspective," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(4), pages 765-785, December.
    7. Per Ståle Knardal & Trond Bjørnenak, 2020. "Managerial characteristics and budget use in festival organizations," Journal of Management Control: Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung, Springer, vol. 31(4), pages 379-402, December.
    8. Eric Edwin Owusu & Gabriel Dwomoh & Mintah Collins & Gyamfuah Yaa & Ofori Daniel, 2014. "Assessing the Relationship between Budget Participation and Employees’ Performance of Public Universities in Ghana: a Case of University of Education," International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, vol. 4(1), pages 85-95, January.
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    11. Matti Skoog, 2020. "Management Control Theory and Practice Integration - Challenges and Possibilities," MANAGEMENT CONTROL, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2020(Suppl. 1), pages 11-17.
    12. Schmitz Sven Olaf & Michniuk Agnieszka & Heupel Thomas, 2019. "Beyond Budgeting – A Fair Alternative For Management Control? - Examining The Relationships Between Beyond Budgeting And Organizational Justice Perceptions," Studies in Business and Economics, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 14(2), pages 160-180, August.
    13. Cäker, Mikael & Siverbo, Sven, 2014. "Strategic alignment in decentralized organizations – The case of Svenska Handelsbanken," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 30(2), pages 149-162.
    14. Chadi Joseph Khalifeh & Prabhu Sivabalan, 2014. "An Experimental Study on the Effect of Budget Information on Balanced Scorecard Preparer Individual Learning," Australian Accounting Review, CPA Australia, vol. 24(1), pages 39-52, March.
    15. Uzoechi Nwagbara, 2012. "Beyond The Allure Of Budgeting: Assessing The Suitability Of Budget For Organisational Performance In The 21st Century," Polish Journal of Management Studies, Czestochowa Technical University, Department of Management, vol. 5(1), pages 78-90, June.

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