The balanced scorecard has been hailed as one of the major developments in management accounting in the last decade. Lipe and Salterio (2000) show that one of the key features of this development, the inclusion of measures that are unique to the strategic objectives of a business unit, tend to...

The balanced scorecard is one of the major developments in management accounting in the past decade (Ittner and Larcker 2001). Lipe and Salterio (2000) find that managers ignore one of the key scorecard features, the inclusion of measures that are unique to the strategic objectives of a business...

We consider accounting from an evolutionary perspective. Accounting encompasses the creation of transactional records, the summarization of records in t-accounts, and the preparation of audited financial statements. Accounting's history spans at least 10,000 years dating back to the first human...

Individual interviews were conducted with top-level marketing, operations, and costing managers in two Class I freight-carrying railroads. This study focuses on the following research question: Which accounting concepts and information do managers use in decision making? From a list of...

Accounting with its arcane language and rules is a subject often feared and reviled by MBA students. While the process of producing accounting information might indeed contribute to this reputation, framed differently, MBA students easily see the role accounting plays in achieving strategic...

Despite its critical importance in the theory of the firm, marginal cost is unobservable in most production settings. Most cost accounting practices substitute average cost estimates for the unobservable marginal cost; moreover, some cost accounting measures include fixed costs as a component of...

Starting from the weaknesses of traditional formal cost accounting systems, this article describes a possible integrative model based on synergies between the Strategic Cost Management approach and some Lean Management tools. This approach has been designed therefore to help enhance the...

The purpose of this paper is to review the evolution of management accounting research in the United States. While the development of management accounting research in the UK generally followed sociological and psychological lines of inquiries, the US work has been much more based on operations...

This paper applies a value-based management framework to critically review empirical research in managerial accounting. This framework enables us to place the exceptionally diverse set of managerial accounting studies from the past several decades into an integrated structure. Our synthesis...

Current paper examines the management accounting practices of Estonian manufacturing companies, exploring the main impacts on them within a contingency theory framework. The methodology comprises an analysis of 62 responses to a postal questionnaire survey carried out among the largest Estonian...