The purpose of this study is to examine the use of recently developed, strategically focused management accounting techniques by Egyptian managers and to compare the adoption rate to other MENA countries as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. In addition, the paper aims at...

This study focuses on the use of Management Accounting tools by companies in the Arabic Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries-a trading bloc created in1981, consisting of the six Arabian Gulf states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The GCC countries...

This study focuses on the introduction of a Six Sigma Continuous Improvement Program and the extent to which an organisation's Management Control System (MSC) supports this new corporate strategy.The research findings show that the sustainability of a Six Sigma program requires the...

This article uses a survey of Certified Management Accountants (CMA) in the six Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to examine the importance that CMAs place on a number of management accounting practices for the efficient operation of their business and to determine the degree of...

This paper presents an implementation strategy for companies considering a Six Sigma continuous improvement program. The proposed model was developed combining results of a study on the best practices of twelve organizations in Canada that have been operating a Six Sigma program for more than...

Purpose – The aim of this research project is to examine the adoption rate of management accounting tools by businesses in the Gulf Co‐operative Council (GCC) countries and attempts to determine if significant variances in the use of management accounting tools by GCC businesses are...

The purpose of this research project was to determine the adoption rate of a number of management accounting practices by North American businesses and to ask accounting practitioners working in that business if the degree of use of each management accounting practice was sufficient for...

Purpose - This research project aims at providing more understanding of how indigenous organizational contingency factors effects the choice of a particular set of Management Accounting techniques by businesses in the Gulf Cooperative Council countries. The study covers a broad range of...