Agent-based computational economics (ACE) - while adopted comparably widely in other domains of managerial science - is a rather novel paradigm for management accounting research (MAR). This paper provides an overview of opportunities and difficulties that ACE may have for research in management...

Introduction -- Management Accounting -- Conceptual and Theoretical Framework -- Research Design and Model Formalization -- Costing System Sophistication and Quality of Provided Information -- Effects of Single Input Biases on the Quality of Provided Information -- Effects of Multiple Input...