The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the interactive and diagnostic use of management control systems on the adoption and success of contemporary management accounting practices in the public sector. Contemporary management accounting practices includes: benchmarking, activity-based costing, the balanced scorecard, value chain analysis, total quality management, key perform...

Purpose – To identify differences between employer expectations and educational pedagogy of the skills set appropriate for management accountants. Design/methodology/approach – The data was derived from job advertisements by employers seeking management accountants in Australasian organisations. Findings A total of 36 practices were identified within the management accounting job advertisements...

The adoption of western management accounting practices in China and the influences of foreign partnered joint ventures As an attempt to investigate the adoption, future emphasis and benefits derived from traditional and contemporary western-orientated management accounting practices in Chinese organisations, in particular, in state-owned enterprises and foreign joint ventures located in China,...

The specific aim of this academic study is to investigate the possible impacts of external and internal factors in the unique process of privatization on the changes of management accounting practices in listed companies of Tehran Stock Exchange which more than 51% of this companies' shares have been transferred to the private sector. For this purpose, a theoretical framework scientifically bas...

The roles of accounting in shaping the economy are currently being rediscovered by This recent revival of interest in accounting marks a further stage in a curious pattern of alternate attention and neglect on the part of sociologists towards the practices that make the economy visible and measurable qua economy. This paper reviews the different ways in which accounting has been given a wider s...