Practice Developments in Budgeting: An Overview and Research Perspective

Posted: 28 Sep 2003

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Stephen C. Hansen

University of Southern Maine - School of Business

David Otley

Lancaster University

Wim A. Van der Stede

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

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Abstract

Practitioners in Europe and the U.S. recently have proposed two distinct approaches to address what they believe are shortcomings of traditional budgeting practices. One approach advocates improving the budgeting process and primarily focuses on the planning problems with budgeting. The other advocates abandoning the budget and primarily focuses on the performance evaluation problems with budgeting. This paper provides an overview and research perspective on these two recent developments. We discuss why practitioners have become dissatisfied with budgets, describe the two distinct approaches, place them in a research context, suggest insights that may aid the practitioners, and use the practitioner perspectives to identify fruitful areas for research.

Keywords: budgeting, planning, strategy, activity based budgeting

JEL Classification: M41, M46, M47, L20

Suggested Citation

Hansen, Stephen C. and Otley, David T. and Van der Stede, Wim A., Practice Developments in Budgeting: An Overview and Research Perspective. Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 15, pp. 95-116, 2003, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=438681

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Wim A. Van der Stede

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