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经典专科、本科、硕博、研究生、期刊毕业论文 仅供参考 精心整理 仅供参考 勿用作商业用途 A conceptual framework for teaching management accounting Sajay Samuel ABSTRACT This paper proposes a conceptual framework for teaching management accounting. The framework is rooted in distinguishing organizations from markets and draws on the fast-developingfield of “organizational economics.” Market clearing prices, infinitely divisible commodities, and regime of private property rights are three aspects that can theoretically characterize market transactions. This paper argues for conceptualizing the subject matter of management accounting as a response to the relative absence of these aspects of market transactions within organizations.Specifically, management accounting procedures can be classified as instruments that: coordinate the demand and supply of resources in the absence of prices; measure resource consumption given indivisibilities in the cost function; and control resource use when the ownership of assets is separated from its control. This conceptual framework not only lends intellectual coherence to the subject matter of management accounting but also permits its diverse topics to be arranged in a logically articulated manner. 1. Introduction This paper proposes a conceptual framework for teaching management accounting. About twenty years ago, Vangermeersch (1997, p. 45) complained that “management accounting seems to be a free-standing phenomenon without a deep philosophical basis (that) would facilitate the teaching of cost/management accounting.” Responding to his call, there have been many attempts over the intervening years to specify frameworks for and redefinitions of management accounting. This ongoing effort to think through the foundations of management accounting is also linked to renewed attempts to professionalize the field. Section 1 of this paper surveys the relevant scholarly and professional literature to show how the proposed conceptual framework offers a meaningful contribution to