Introduction -- Financial Accounting: Development Paths -- Premises for the Convergence of Financial Accounting and Management Accounting -- Drivers of the Alignment of Financial Accounting to Management Accounting -- Financial Accounting and Alignment to Management Accounting in the Italian...

This paper investigates the logics that drive small accounting practitioners' attitude towards new accounting standards and then, the heterogeneity amongst practitioners in order to unravel the accounting profession, until now considered as a ‘black box' in the accounting harmonization...