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The effect of cost management knowledge on the relationship between budgetary participation and managerial performance

Adebayo Agbejule and Lotta Saarikoski

The British Accounting Review, 2006, vol. 38, issue 4, 427-440

Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between budget participation (BP), cost management knowledge and managerial performance. It draws on relevant previous research in the theory of work performance and accounting to formulate the research questions. Eighty-three managers from Finnish companies participated in the study. Data were collected from the managers using a mail questionnaire. The results indicate that managers’ cost management knowledge, and especially the balanced perspective of cost management knowledge, moderates the effect of BP on self-perception of managerial performance. It was specifically found that the effect of BP on perceived managerial performance becomes more positive when managers’ cost management knowledge increases. High perception of managerial performance is obtained when both the BP and managers’ cost management knowledge are high. Our results suggest that organizations should improve the cost management knowledge of managers who participate in the budgeting process.

Keywords: Budget participation; Cost management knowledge; Managerial performance; Theory of work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2006.06.003

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