Dowd, Joe; McGonigle, William; Djatej, Arsen - In: International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting 2 (2010) 2, pp. 153-160
Budgets are commonly used for multiple purposes. Whereas planning budgets reflect organisations' 'best guesses' of future events, control budgets are intended to motivate high levels of effort. Budgetary control mechanisms modelled in a principal-agent setting typically find that the use of such...