Adoption and benefits of management accounting practices: An Australian study

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-19

  Chenhall, Robert H ^a   Langfield Smith, Kim ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activity based costing; Benchmarking; Management accounting; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032013262     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mare.1997.0060     Document Type: Article

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