Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the recruitment and selection processes of management accountants to enhance the understanding of how employers form perceptions of a suitable management accountant. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis is based on 17 interviews with individuals...

Purpose – This paper aims to address the reporting of validation and evaluation criteria in qualitative management accounting studies, which is a topic of critical debate in qualitative social science research. The objective of this study is to investigate the ways researchers have reported...

Parker (2002) argued that the formalized budgetary discourse in English language textbooks in the 1990s may restrict students' conceptions of budgeting and thereby block uninhibited budgeting change. This study concentrates on the budgetary discourse found in Finnish specialist business journals...

This paper introduces the budgeting climate concept and applies it to the case organizations' budgeting in order to understand the connections between budgeting activity and human behavior in their organizational and social context. The empirical phase comprised a longitudinal case study...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the threats to quality in mixed methods accounting research, wherein quantitative and qualitative approaches are combined in data collection, analysis and interpretation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is framed according to...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to shed light on the threats to quality in mixed methods accounting research, wherein quantitative and qualitative approaches are combined in data collection, analysis and interpretation. Design – Our paper is framed according to the following three...