Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether first level measures in the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) declaring a cause-effect relationship by design are composite indices of lower measures, and if they converge into a single factor as is traditionally accepted in the BSC literature....

La investigación contable más reciente defiende el comportamiento ܰegadizoݠde los costos, es decir su reacción no proporcional ante variaciones en el nivel de actividad. El presente estudio replica el modelo de Anderson, Banker y Janakiraman (2003) sobre una muestra de empresas españolas...

An assumption made in traditional cost accounting books is that variable costs move proportionately with revenues. Recent studies in management accounting literature suggest that the magnitude of the change in the costs does not only depend on the magnitude of the change in the cost driver, but...

This study is a replication and adaptation of Jones and Hensher (2004) model in an emerging economy with the purpose of testing its eternal validity. It compares the logistic standard model's performance with the logistic mixed model to predict bankruptcy risk of Argentinean companies between...