this study presents empirical evidence concerning the effect of different accounting standard on earnings management. prior studies have shown that accounting standards influence earnings management. tighter accounting standards regime restricts management’s descretion to manipulate accruals, and at the same time, induce more costly real earnings management activities. to investigate this iss...

The adoption of lean principles and practices has become widespread in many industries since the early 1990’s. Companies are now beginning to realise that traditional costing and accounting methods may conflict with the lean initiatives they are implementing. Consequently, important research questions are being raised. Is a new cost management and accounting approach required for companies that...

Today's organizations, operating in an increasingly competitive conditions, are characterized by a network of relationships with suppliers and customers. Thus, the key resources, being a source of competitive advantage, are located not only within the organization but are part of network relationships. The most important task of managers is to achieve supply chain cost efficiency while maintain...

Regarding the tremendous changes effected in the domain of modern technologies and information technologies, firms are required to adopt management accounting innovations to continue their operations. While the extant literature has focused on developed countries, the present project is set to determine the extent to which management accounting innovations are applied in firms in the context of...

Modern features of chaotic structuring economy, which implies openness, uncertainty, dynamism and self-organization and fundamentally new requirements of the Information Society, require the creation and study of new approaches to management accounting in informational aspect. In general, modern management accounting should be able to form and provide information including not only existing but...

There has been much discussion over many years of the alleged gap between management accounting theory and practice. Whereas researchers sympathetic to neoclassical economics have sought to rationalise the gap in terms of information economics and have proposed constrained optimisation as the norm, Scapens [Scapens, R.W., 1994. Never mind the gap: towards an institutional perspective of managem...

in management accounting information systems, managers use accounting information systems to be able to predict or have the data structured by the use of decision support systems and business intelligence. so, the use of management accounting information systems is necessary in management decision-making process based on decision support and business intelligence. this paper reviews the liter...