Drawing on a framework of deinstitutionalization, this study explores the abandonment of budgeting through a multiple-case study of four companies. The findings illustrate how a number of antecedents to deinstitutionalization acted in each setting and show that abandonment was only achieved...

The budget is being more and more criticized. Its abandonment is even suggested. This would be the failure of a management tool that was born in the 1930s and that had since a great success. It seems too early to tell whether this criticism will lead to its disappearance. However, we can...

This article provides information on business and therefore need managers to obtain information relevant accounting, reliable, clear, accurate and lowest costs to optimize decision making. This need derives from the current economic environment. The survival of organizations in a competitive...

The financial crisis has started on the US subprime mortgage market in the summer of 2007, reaching unexpected levels by 2008, rapidly spreading all over the world and disrupting the global financial system. In less than a year, the balance-sheets of the biggest financial companies reported...

The act of management has always had an essential role in human community activities. The efficiency of a company depends on the quality of managerialt process. This requires performant management, which means competence and rational decisions. Accountancy can support the decision making process...

In the context of expansion and multiplication of international economic relations, in general, and of intra-Community commercial transactions, in particular, where the goods and capital markets are developing at a rapid pace, ignoring national boundaries, accounting systems are necessary in...

Prior research has estimated piece-meal the determinants of audit fees, non-audit fees and abnormal accruals. Intuition, informal analysis, and a variety of theories suggest that audit fees, non-audit fees, and abnormal accruals are jointly determined. We address this endogeneity issue by...

Accounting conservatism is an important aspect of financial reporting quality. Considering the tradeoff between relevance and reliability of the accounting information, it is argued that the level of conservatism of financial reports is increased by provision items, which are mainly future...

El presente escrito busca mostrar el papel que ha tenido y potencial que pueden tener los estudios sociales de la ciencia en la investigación contable internacional y nacional. Parte de la percepción de la contabilidad como práctica social constructora de realidades y, al mismo tiempo,...

Environmental changes require a new management control, to give more power and confidence of all parties involved and a management accounting that is concerned with understanding the environment and taking in consideration strategic orientations, decision, resource management and continuous...