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The Role of Information Seeking and Use in Management Accounting : = Exploring the Process of Creating a Budget for Complex Projects.

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Title/Author:	The Role of Information Seeking and Use in Management Accounting :/
Reminder of title:	Exploring the Process of Creating a Budget for Complex Projects.
Author:	Kwan, Amy.
Description:	1 online resource (176 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-05A.
Subject:	Information science. -
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ISBN:	9798380837408

The Role of Information Seeking and Use in Management Accounting : = Exploring the Process of Creating a Budget for Complex Projects.
Kwan, Amy.

The Role of Information Seeking and Use in Management Accounting :Exploring the Process of Creating a Budget for Complex Projects. - 1 online resource (176 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This research study investigates the relatively unexplored topic of the 'process' of creating a budget. In this study, the focus is on preparing the budget for use, as opposed to using the budget as a tool once it has been prepared. This study on the budget creation process, a topic in management accounting studies, draws upon research from the information science domain. Understanding the process of creating a budget, i.e., how information is located, evaluated, and used, can be significant as the quality of the budget as a product (the output from the process) can have a downstream effect on the decisions for which the budget may be an input. This study applies both information science and management accounting literature to help improve our understanding of the budgeting process.A preliminary conceptual framework, informed by the review of literature in both management accounting (budgeting) and information science (information needs, seeking, and use), was designed to be used as a guiding star/map. The preliminary conceptual framework evolved through interviews with 22 industry professionals. A semi-structured interview approach was utilized in an individual 1:1 interview setting. This empirical method allowed the participant to tell their story, while ensuring that prompts and a few prepared structured questions were provided to help guide the conversation. Six main themes (task readiness and organization, information needs, sources of information gathered, information seeking, information use, influence of experience) surfaced from the analysis of the participant interview data.The research contribution from this study is a Conceptual Framework for Budgeting Process that can be used while working through the process of creating a budget. The conceptual framework produced from this study is a unique offering of a roadmap to understand the "role of information seeking and use in management accounting" during the process of creating a budget. The outcomes of this research study also contribute by adding an important critical thinking element to the management accounting literature. This research study also suggests further possibilities for research linking information behavior to other management accounting topics or other accounting disciplines, e.g., auditing and assurance, financial accounting, that can be explored.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380837408Subjects--Topical Terms:

561178
Information science.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Budgeting processIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

The Role of Information Seeking and Use in Management Accounting : = Exploring the Process of Creating a Budget for Complex Projects.
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