Zadania i miejsce komórki controllingu w przedsiębiorstwie

The paper presents the tasks and place of controlling department in the company. The controller, who is at its forefront, plays the role of economic advisor for the management board. The main tasks of the department are to prepare operational as well as strategic plans, budgeting of costs, revenues and results within short period of time, monitoring the deviations from the budgets and plans and investigating the source of these deviations. The solutions regarding to the role and the place of controlling department in organizational structure are very individual and flexibly adopted to the management board needs. This is proven by the empirical examples given in this paper. In the first stage of controlling introduction process, controlling department is subordinated to CEO. Later, when the position of the department is settled in the company, the CFO takes the control over it. In domestic capital groups financial controlling departments or capital supervision departments over subsidiary companies are additionally formed. In international corporations there are controlling departments on several levels of organizational structure, subordinated to the central controller.