CMA Management articles garner award of merit.

Two articles originally published in CMA Management have been chosen to appear in a collection of award-winning international articles on topics such as performance measurement, sustain-ability and corporate social responsibility, and the changing roles of accounting and finance professionals.

The Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Committee of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has released its 2006 Articles of Merit. This collection includes 10 previously published articles that were selected by the PAIB Committee as part of its annual Articles of Merit Award Program for Distinguished Contribution to Management Accounting.

"Managing and Reporting Sustainability," by David Crawford, CMA, and "The Balanced Scorecard and Corporate Social Responsibility: aligning values for profit," by David Crawford, CMA, and Todd Scaletta, CMA, were the articles selected for inclusion in this year's publication from among the submissions by CMA Management.

The winning article for 2006 is "Performance Measures in Supply Chains" by Kim Langfield-Smith and David Smith, which was first published in CPA Australia's Australian Accounting Review. The article examines the benefits and challenges of supply chain management.

Other articles of outstanding merit were first published in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Journal of Accountancy; the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants' (UK) Financial Management; CPA Australia's Australian Accounting Review; the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales' Performance Measurement, Finance & Management Special Report; and the Institute of Management Accountants' (US) Strategic Finance.

The 2006 Articles of Merit, together with past issues, may be downloaded free-of-charge from the IFAC online bookstore at www.ifac.org/store.