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Quality in management accounting: approach by activities in large companies

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  • Maria João Cardoso Vieira Machado
  • Paula Cristina Rodrigues Alves

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This study intends to contribute to the knowledge about the approach by activities, a management accounting method that promotes the quality of information. As specific objectives, we have identified the following: to analyse the knowledge rate regarding the approach by activities, and identify whether there is a link between it and the financial officers' characteristics; to analyse the utilisation rate of the approach by activities, and the factors conditioning it; to analyse whether there is a link between a company's features, and the use of the approach by activities. The data collection method used was the application of a survey to the financial officers of the largest Portuguese companies, which yielded 61 valid responses. The results found allowed us to conclude the following: the time driven activity-based costing is very little known and used in Portugal; there is a link between the knowledge of the approach by activities and the financial officers' gender, age and educational background; there is a link between the use of the approach by activities and two company features: the legal form and the capital holding.

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  • Maria João Cardoso Vieira Machado & Paula Cristina Rodrigues Alves, 2017. "Quality in management accounting: approach by activities in large companies," International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 21(3), pages 392-409.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpqma:v:21:y:2017:i:3:p:392-409
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