(VF)Que s’est-il publié depuis dix ans en contrôle de gestion en France et qu’avons-nous appris de ces recherches? Ce sont les questions auxquelles cet article cherche à répondre en examinant la production scientifique publiée dans les revues Finance Contrôle Stratégie et...

The aim of this article is to analyse practices of management accounting in small businesses. A study based on a sample of 86 firms examines, (1) costs and price methodologies, and (2) management tools. After a descriptive approach the author proposes a typology for each item. The size seems to...

(VF)La méthode ABC constitue une alternative aux méthodes traditionnelles de calcul des coûts dont le manque de pertinence pour éclairer les prises de décision stratégiques a largement été critiqué. Pourtant, les études empiriques sur l'application de l’ABC à la modélisation des...

In this article, we present the evolution of management accounting and the strategic management accounting (SMA) concept. The balanced scorecard (BSC), a SMA tool, is quite famous in European countries. Its principle objective is to articulate planning decisions with control ones thanks to...

Comparative national management accounting is the least developed aspect in the field of international accounting. Only during the second half of the 1990's some comparisons of national management accounting practice have appeared published but only at the regional level. In this paper a range...

Three recent major developments have occurred that have dramatically changed the business environment : information technology, globalization and concentration of power in large market investors. These three change drivers have had two major impacts on firms:1) they have eliminated the old...

Mergers and acquisitions have become essential strengths of the firm strategy. The process perspective aims for best value creation during the integration process. Applied to symbiotic case studies,the proposed research is to study the contribution of management accounting to the process...

Gray (1988) has put forward a hypothesis on how a national accounting environment might reflect the cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede (1980, 1983). A number of studies have tested Gray's hypothesis, including one by Pourjalali and Meek (1995) which identified a match between changes in...

Cost systems have been shown to have developed considerably in recent years and activity-based costing (ABC) has been shown to be a contribution to cost management, particularly in service businesses. The public sector is composed to a very great extent of service functions, yet considerably...