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Video: Tuesday, 6 January 2015

What is the value of controllers? Is their image of being accounting professionals who look at past results a true reflection of what they add to a business? Or is there more to it? RSM’s Professor Frank Hartmann explains how controllers are key in supporting management and in the process of creating new business strategies. "Controllers give the economic translation of what management wants."

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Frank Hartmann

Former Professor of Management Accounting and Management Control

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