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Influence of control system characteristics on the choice of management accounting techniques in an emerging economy: the case of the United Arab Emirates

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  • Mayada Abd El-Aziz Youssef
  • Esam Eldin Moustafa

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There has been sustained interest in explaining why firms adopt different management accounting techniques (MATs). The study differs from prior studies in looking for relationships between the management control system (MCS) characteristics and the choice of a particular set of MATs in a sample of United Arab Emirates companies. Our findings reveal that budgetary performance measures, financial statement/ratio analysis, variance analysis and controllable cost analysis are highly adopted by UAE organisations. ABM and ABC, BSC, target costing and single rate overhead allocation are moderately adopted. The adoption rates of the advanced MATs are noticeably higher than their adoption rates usually found in the management accounting literature. The results also show that there are significant correlations between the performance evaluation and control MATs and the control over behaviour of employees and reliance on formal rules. Hence, certain MCS characteristics seem to encourage the use of certain MATs.

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  • Mayada Abd El-Aziz Youssef & Esam Eldin Moustafa, 2014. "Influence of control system characteristics on the choice of management accounting techniques in an emerging economy: the case of the United Arab Emirates," International Journal of Accounting and Finance, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(4), pages 378-397.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:intjaf:v:4:y:2014:i:4:p:378-397
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