The background of this paper is there are still companies that do not understand how important a budget plan in compiling business activities. A budget that is not prepared properly can cause the company's existence to be threatened because it does not know whether it is experiencing profit or...

Budgeting is allocating limited resources to unlimited needs and aims to maximise the use of resources that are usually scarce. In the face of these scarce resources, continuous attention to planning, allocating resources, and budgeting is an undeniable necessity. The importance of the budget in...

We argue that recent participative budgeting experiments designed to extend agency theory reveal the effects of responsibility, transparency, and accountability. We define these three theoretical constructs and present two experiments designed to isolate their main and interactive effects. In...

This paper studies the effect of the standardization of the strategy translation process on procedural fairness in budgeting and firm performance. Analysis of 250 valid questionnaires using a structural equation model shows that the strategy translation process (STP) affects firm performance not...

We argue that participative budgeting experiments designed to test agency theory predictions reveal the effects of responsibility, transparency, and accountability. We define these accounting constructs and present two experiments designed to isolate their main and interactive effects. In...

De Marco once said that you can't manage what you can't measure. Academics and practitioners in software engineering and information systems projects consistently point out that the "intangibility" of software leads to conflicts between stakeholders and a lack of support from top management,...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of budgetary slack on the allocated budget and the achievement of organizational goals under a centralized performance-based budgeting (PBB) strategy. A mathematical model is developed to select the strategic portfolio of activities and allocate budget to...

This study contributes to the management accounting (MA) literature by exploring the effect of managers’ perception of justice in the budgeting process (as a subsystem of MA) on their satisfaction and motivation to achieve organizational objectives. Drawing on the Habermasian concept of...

Management accountants who are preparing cash flow forecasts for capital budgeting decisions may have preferred conclusions that lead to motivated reasoning. Whereas previous research has mainly demonstrated antecedents of accountants’ motivated reasoning (e.g., client pressure), we look more...

This paper aims to analysis and evaluate of an organization’s budgetary control system and its links with performance management and decision making. So, it tries to evaluate the relation of budgetary control system with the actual performance and taking decisions accordingly. The researcher...

This paper aims to demonstrate whether budgetary participation, budgetary slack, authority delegation and organizational commitment positively affect managerial performance of local government work unit. This empirical study is conducted with local government work unit in district/city in...

This paper aims to determine possibility beyond budget implementation in public sector organization which submissive to federal government budget instructions, this budget as an act should be followed, by those organizations committed by financial ministry planning. We have discussed tow...

Women in India are relatively disadvantaged and they enjoy somewhat a lower status than men in spite of the various measures and efforts taken by different governments. Gender gap still exists regarding their access to education and employment. The most recent way out suggested nationally as...

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The basic indicators of manufacturing industry’s level of development are still at an unenviable level, although it provides the majority of tradable goods of Serbian economy and has the most significant share in gross domestic product. This state of the manufacturing industry in Serbia is the...

Some organizations have abandoned traditional annual budgeting and instead use an alternate approach known as Beyond Budgeting (BB). Our study presents the results of an exploratory analysis comparing 80 organizations that have implemented at least some of the BB practices to a group of 121...

The validity of the NPV rule and the criticisms against IRR are evaluated using a capital amortization approach (CA) and the results presented. Negative or zero or no IRR is consistent with the net cash flow (NCF) when the sum of NCF is either zero or negative. Reinvestment, with non-normal NCF,...

We analyze the role of risk limits in the provision of incentives to acquire valuable information for efficient risk management. We study the optimal contract of a trader who (a) must privately exert costly effort in order to collect information and (b) may have access to a costly second opinion...

Using an NPV-based revealed-preference strategy, I find that idiosyncratic risk materially affects the discount rate that firms use in their capital budgeting decisions. I exploit quasi-exogenous within-region variation in project-specific idiosyncratic risk and find that, on average, firms...

I examine how a company’s headquarters use an empire-building manager’s report about decision-relevant private information to make capital budgeting decisions and compensate the manager. To this end, I construct a model comprising the headquarters (principal) and the manager (agent), who...

This paper examines whether the legislative adoption of performance-based budgeting (PBB) limits budgetary slack. Based on the model of slack-maximizing bureaucracy, we predict that the enactment of PBB laws is likely to shore up the legislature’s ability to control budgetary slack. By...