This article examines differences between family and non-family businesses with regard to the manifestation of management accounting systems and addresses the question of whether business size or the differentiation of family vs. non-family businesses is the dominant influencing factor in the...

Although contingency-based research finds many factors that influence a firm's management accounting (MA ) system, despite the vast economic importance of family firms in most Western countries, researchers have not considered family influence as a contingency variable for MA systems. Using...