Monday, August 3, 2009

APA format? Stupid!

I really fed up with my stupid Management Accounting assignment!
It has wasted me a lot of time!

Some more now,
I really don't know what the lecturer want.

I email him:

''Our articles are:
1. A system for management control in private colleges
2. Effect of the interactive use of management control system on product innovative.
3. Management control system and strategy
4. Management Control Systems Strategy and Performance
5. reviewing a european excellent model from management control view
6.. Contingency-based Design of Management Control Systems
7. Industrial dynamic and the control of management system
8. management control and their effect
9. management control system design
10. management control transformation
11. Research problem in managenment control
12. the driver of management control
''

His reply:

''Could you please use APA format? Thanks.''

I email him again:

''Our articles are:
1. Joseph A. Maciariello and Willard F. Enteman (Nov., 1974) A System for Management Control in Private Colleges, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 45, No. 8 , pp. 594-606

2. Josep Bisbe and David Otley,(2004) The effects of the interactive use of management
control systems on product innovation, Accounting, Organizations and Society 29 709–737

3. Kim Langfield Smith (1997) Management control system: A critical review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 207-232

4. Metka Tekavčič, Darja Peljhan and Željko Šević, Management control system, strategy and performance: the case of a slovenian company http://www.unisa.edu.au/commerce/docs/Management%20Control%20Systems%20Strategy%20and%20Performance.pdf

5. Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park, (2008) Reviewing a european excellent model from management control view, The TQM Journal Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 98-119

6. Thomas Pock (2007) Contingency-based Design of Management Control Systems http://www.unisg.ch/www/edis.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/3277/$FILE/dis3277.pdf

7. David E. W. Marginson (2002) Management control and their effect, Strategic Management Journal www.interscience.wiley.com

8. Robert R. Picard and Priscilla Reis (2002) management control system design, Managerial Auditing Journal 17/5 222-233

9. Roland Almqvist and Matti Skoog (2006) management control transformation, Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting Vol. 10 No. 3,

10. Tony Davila (2000) The driver of management control Accounting, Organizations and Society 25 383±409
''

His reply:

''Please use APA format. Thanks.''

What the hell is that APA format!!!

1 comment:

  1. I fucking hate APA formatting. It makes you focus more on formatting and needless shit and less on the actual content of the paper. I used to be a good writer until I went to college.

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