Purpose: Firstly, this paper investigates the sourcing strategy of small and medium sized companies (SMEs) in terms of accounting tasks. Secondly, this paper also attempts to find motivations for the sourcing strategy of accounting. Thirdly, this paper investigates whether the sourcing strategy...

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study whether time-driven Activity-based Costing (ABC) is more appropriate to capture the complexity of logistics transactions than traditional ABC. <br>Methodology: This paper explores the method of time-driven ABC and presents the results of a case study at...

Although accrual accounting has become increasingly more popular in many governments over recent years, some issues remain unresolved. Previous literature questioned whether non-business-like governmental assets can be adequately capitalized. Whereas these studies mostly focussed on specific...

Le Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (Time-Driven ABC) a été introduit récemment par Kaplan et Anderson. Cette méthode a été mise au point pour délivrer des informations plus précises sur les coûts et la rentabilité des produits/services. Elle permettrait, selon ses concepteurs, de...

Prior literature examined the financial impact of capitalizing operating leases by using the constructive lease capitalization method of Imhoff et al. (1991). The empirical evidence of these studies results in the perception that operating leases lead to off-balance financing, improvements of...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine empirically the relationship between cultural factors and students’ learning style preferences in the context of the current global convergence in accounting education. Design/methodology/approach – Kolb's Learning Style Inventory and...

This paper addresses the question of whether the increasing use of multiple-choice questions will favour particular student groups, i.e. male or female students. Using data from Belgium, this paper empirically examines the existence of a gender effect by comparing the relative performance of...