Journal title MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Author/s Paolo Candio
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/2 Suppl.
Language English Pages 11 P. 215-225 File size 197 KB
DOI 10.3280/MACO2023-002-S1010
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Cost-effectiveness refers to the achievement of optimal allocation of limited re-sources and its ultimate purpose is to support rational decision-making. Cost-effectiveness principles govern financial reporting and managerial accounting frameworks, yet in practice these might not have been formally characterised and identified within the accounting literature due to semantic issues and norms. This article explores the nexus between cost-effectiveness and accounting by conduct-ing a scoping review of the published literature. Findings from this study suggest that use of the cost-effectiveness criterion has increased over time and been more frequently employed by authors affiliated to U.S. academic institutions. Cost-effectiveness principles have been invoked both in published financial and mana-gerial accounting research. However, only a handful of mostly empirical studies have quantified cost-effectiveness evidence and formally applied and discussed its analytical methods. This article highlights a research gap pertaining to the de-velopment of interdisciplinary frameworks and analytical methods able to formal-ly integrate the concept of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses into ac-counting research.
Keywords: cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, accounting, decision-making.
Paolo Candio, On the role of cost-effectiveness in accounting in "MANAGEMENT CONTROL" 2 Suppl./2023, pp 215-225, DOI: 10.3280/MACO2023-002-S1010