This paper studies budget processes, both theoretically and experimentally.The authors give a sufficient condition for top-down and bottom-up budget processes to have the same voting equilibrium.

The work described in the literature on inventory and supply chain management has advanced greatly over the last few decades and now covers many aspects and challenges of applied supply chain management. In this paper we describe an approach that combines many of these academic aspects in a...

Empirical studies on management accounting in SME (small and medium enterprises) have shown a wide range of different implementations of management accounting in such enterprises. Contingency theory is often used to explain this varienty.

This paper analyzes a useful accounting framework that breaks down the current account to twocomponents: a composition effect and a growth effect.We show that past empirical evidence, which stronglysupports the growth effect as the main driver of current account dynamics, is misconceived. The...

Accounting is frequently described and recognized as the language of business because theexternal financial reporting function is extensively used as a principal means of communicatingresults of corporate economic activity to interested external parties. However, deficiencies withrespect to the...

Identifizierung von Risiken und deren Unterlegung mit Eigenkapital sind die von der Finanzaufsichtgeforderten Maßnahmen eines Risikomanagements. Eigene Risikomodelle werden zugelassen unddie Angemessenheit der Planung wird zusätzlich mittels Stresstests überwacht.Risikomanagement kann hierbei...

Many European companies are attracted to Maltabecause of its full imputation system, more commonlyknown as the international holding company regime.In fact, a vast majority of German blue chips run aMalta holding or finance company.[...]

The Latin principle pacta sunt servanda (‘‘agreementsmust be kept’’) serves as a cornerstone of socialinteraction, peace, and justice. If a breach of contractdid not have some sort of ramification, the motivationto stick to the stipulations of the treaty would decreasegreatly, the...

If German tax law was a river flowing over all businesstransactions and commercial accounting, thelast words of Norman Maclean in A River Runs ThroughIt best suit the traditional relationship between commercialand tax accounting. For more than 100 yearsthe principle of strict book-tax conformity...