Behavioral Accounting Research Research Articles

Determinant Factors Affecting Compliance MSME Taxpayers (Case Study of Cipadang Village Community)

Given that taxes represent the primary revenue source in Indonesia, the government places significant emphasis on the tax processing procedure. Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) receive a government-borne incentive of 0.5 percent Final Income Tax, underscoring the government's support for this sector. With 64.2 million MSMEs in Indonesia in 2019, comprising 99.99% of all business entities, these taxpayers are exempted from tax remittance up to a specified threshold, with no tax deductions or collections enforced upon their payments. This study endeavors to assess the impact of religiosity, love of money, tax knowledge, taxpayer awareness, tax rates, and tax sanctions on compliance among MSME taxpayers registered in Cipadang Village. Employing a quantitative approach, data is gathered through questionnaires, involving 30 respondents who are MSME taxpayers. This research contributes to the advancement of tax accounting and behavioral accounting research, particularly concerning compliance with tax payments among MSME taxpayers.

Stakeholders’ Response to IFRS adoption/ convergence on accounting quality and disclosures: A bibliometric review of Scopus database

This study characterises the results of behavioral accounting research on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption published in various journals. It: (a) provides an integrated overview of the extant literature available on the Scopus database, (b) locates their contributions, (c) identifies knowledge gaps and (d) derives a unique hypothesis for future investigation. This review presents an analysis of the studies on IFRS adoption/convergence considering the response of various stakeholders to IFRS adoption on issues including accounting quality and disclosure requirements. The present paper analyses 106 articles published between 2005 and 2021. Preparers (accountants) and users including academicians, researchers, policymakers, and regulatory and standard-setting bodies such as IASB may use this examination as a guideline to conduct further inspections into the standard-setting processes and the related issues.

Tangible Rewards for More Than Just Productivity: Examining Canadian Public Accounting Firms' Rewards Programs*

ABSTRACTCompanies spend significant amounts of money on tangible rewards programs, even during the economic turmoil of the COVID‐19 pandemic. The prevalence, growth, and significance of these expenditures highlight the importance of understanding the purpose and use of these programs by organizations. Research on public accounting (PA) firms' compensation plans has focused on the balance between professional and commercial incentives in partner profit‐sharing schemes but has failed to examine the incentives for nonpartner audit professionals. However, it is exactly these professionals who do a substantial amount of work on audit engagements. This paper has three main purposes. First, we investigate the nature and composition of PA firms' tangible rewards programs and provide a detailed description. Second, we examine the use of firms' tangible rewards programs to provide evidence of what actions are being rewarded. We use Almer et al.'s (2005, Behavioral Research in Accounting 17: 1–22) framework, which presents dimensions of the auditors' professional contribution, and explores whether firms recognize these dimensions using tangible rewards. Third, we develop future research questions to help explore the use of tangible rewards in firms without structured output. We collect archival data on the use of tangible rewards from each of the Big 4 PA firms and three of the next four largest international accounting firms in Canada. We find that firms use their tangible rewards programs for “building a culture of recognition,” for performance incentives, and for employee and firm development, thus rewarding a broad set of measures beyond the incentive measures for hours worked.

A systematic literature network analysis on the development of behavioural accounting research

A systematic literature network analysis on the development of behavioural accounting research

The professional reference group in the opinions of Polish accountants who prepare financial reporting information

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to present professional reference groups that exist in accountants' minds. These groups are the source of values, norms, and behaviours. Methodology/approach: The qualitative research was conducted in the form of in-depth interviews with 38 accountants with at least three years of professional experience in ac-counting offices or who were in charge of preparing financial information in non-financial entities. Findings: The respondents' opinions indicate the presence of three dimensions that constitute the basis for identifying the professional reference groups: 1) positive and negative, 2) a group of older (more experienced) and younger (less experienced) account-ants, and 3) different perceptions of accountants who work in accounting service offices and those employed in accounting departments in non-financial entities. The identified reference groups are both normative and comparative, although the normative aspect seems to dominate. Research limitations/implications: Limitations of the study result from the method used (qualitative research) and the characteristics of the respondents, who were account-ants working in Poland. Moreover, the reference groups were identified only in terms of professional reference groups, disregarding broader social reference groups. Originality/value: The article describes the first study to identify reference groups among accountants, which opens a new dimension to behavioral research in accounting.

Metaphors by which controllers are seen. The image of the controller profession in the eyes of controlling students

Purpose: The study aims to identify the image of the controller profession by students of controlling. The research question is: How do potential future controllers perceive the controller profession? Methodology/approach: The investigation presented in this paper takes a qualitative approach. The study uses metaphors and projection – the Forced Metaphor Elicitation Technique and narrative analysis. Findings: The image of controllers is varied. They are viewed as intelligent, cunning, clever, good strategists, and observers. They possess adaptation capabilities, intuitive thinking, and creativity. Their job is characterized by using different tools and working with massive amounts of data, documents, tables, and graphs. A controller’s position is seen as significant as they enhance results, watch over other workers, and minimize mistakes and costs. Controllers are respected or even feared, dangerous, and some-times they play the role of an alpha wolf. Research limitations/implications: The findings of the study may be culture-sensitive. This limitation calls for intercultural research in various countries to enable an understanding of the controller’s role across the globe. Value: The paper proves the appropriacy of applying the symbolic-interpretive para-digm in behavioral accounting research. The research is one of the first investigations in accounting, and probably first in controlling, to demonstrate that the metaphors used to describe controllers reveal how the controller’s role, tasks, and work are seen. The findings can be applied in accounting education, career planning in accounting, and in shaping the professional image by associations of accountants and controllers. The image of controllers displayed future controllers reveals the direction in which controlling is probably headed.

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Scientific flow analysis of behavioral accounting research in Web of Science database

Scientific flow analysis of behavioral accounting research in Web of Science database

A Structured Perspective on Behavioral Accounting Research

The objective of this study is to analyze and examine the research area of behavioral accounting. As today’s society is increasingly focused on the general state of human well-being, it is reasonable to assume that this field of social sciences will continue to receive the significance gained through contributions to social life. From the perspective of illustrating the evolution of research conducted in the field of behavioral accounting and starting from the evidence that this field of accounting has developed from the empirical to the theoretical dimension, the criterion of temporal succession of manifestation is used. The descriptive analysis technique is used for data analysis. The research results emphasize the constant concern and permanent diversification towards the humanemotional component of accounting, through the systematic observation of people and the measurement of variables.

Behavioral Considerations in Management Accounting Theory and Practice

The paper explores the question of what the future of behavioral accounting research in management accounting is. It contributes to the Bulgarian accounting theory by highlighting behavioral problems as an important research area for the future development of management accounting. More generally the paper contributes to the existing literature with the deductive justification of behavioral considerations being an integral and fundamental part of the theory and practice of management accounting. The first and second sections examine the early behavioral problems of the Anglo-Saxon practice and theory of accounting in general and management accounting in particular. The third section describes various behavioral issues discussed in Bulgarian accounting literature. The last section argues that the impact of the management accounting function – its contribution to the development and implementation of the strategy – depends heavily on the influence of management accounting information on the subjective mental representations of its primary users.

Is Neuroaccounting Taking a Place on the Stage? A Review of the Influence of Neuroscience on Accounting Research

Insights and technologies from neuroscience research can help accounting scholars more deeply understand how decision-makers physically and cognitively process and react to accounting information and controls. We conduct a systematic review of accounting literature to evaluate whether and how accounting scholars are incorporating neuroscience research into their work and building a field of ‘neuroaccounting.’ To do so, we identify literature that relates accounting research questions to neuroscience research, addresses accounting questions or tasks but has implications for neuroscience or neuroaccounting research, or investigates accounting questions using neuroscience technologies. We then classify that literature into two broad topic areas analogous to the decision-facilitating (how individuals process information) and decision-influencing (how individuals respond to controls) roles of accounting, and map relationships within each topic over time. We observe that literature in accounting is coalescing into a new field, neuroaccounting, in ways that mirror the pattern of development of a similar field, neuroeconomics – indicating that neuroaccounting is indeed taking a place on the stage of behavioral accounting research. Our review provides a framework for future research at the nexus of neuroscience and accounting that provides unique insights into the ‘black box’ of cognitive processing in accounting contexts.

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Cross-cultural comparison of ethical reasoning of students in China and the United States

ABSTRACTAs China advances, attitudes about ethical reasoning will continue to evolve from norms rooted in Confucianism, guanxi, and collectivism toward attitudes consistent with developed countries. With the lack of understanding of reasoning in China, business executives, professors, and students from developed countries rely on their society’s cultural norms to inform ethical reasoning. The purpose of this study was to examine cross-cultural ethical reasoning skills of the next generation of executives in the United States and China represented by students from mid-sized universities. Using the Accounting Ethical Dilemma Instrument [Thorne, 2000. The development of two measures to assess accountants’ prescriptive and deliberative moral reasoning. Behavioral Research in Accounting, 12, 139–169. https://aaajournals.org/loi/bria] and Hofstede’s [1991. Cultures and organizations. McGraw-Hill] taxonomy of cultural identities, the researchers determined that students from a public university in the United States exhibited higher reasoning skills than their Chinese peers. With the potential evolution of ethical reasoning in China, findings from this study may prove beneficial in the future of the convergence of Chinese and Western cultures.

Moral reasoning of Chinese accounting students and practitioners

This exploratory study employs the Defining Issues Test (DIT2) to investigate the moral reasoning levels of a sample of 228 accounting students at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, and 192 accounting practitioners from different regions of China. The results show that on average, the P scores (a measure of the post-conventional level of moral development) of Chinese accounting students and practitioners are 45.02 and 33.57, respectively. When compared with the levels of moral reasoning of their peers in Western countries, as provided in Tables 1 and 2 of Bailey et al. (Behavioral Research in Accounting, 22(2):1–26, 2010), Chinese accounting students exhibit post-conventional levels of moral development similar to the highest levels reported, whereas Chinese accounting practitioners report post-conventional levels of moral development similar to the lowest levels of post-conventional moral development reported by the practitioners in Western countries. Furthermore, female Chinese accounting students score significantly higher on the post-conventional level of the development stage than do the male Chinese students, but there is no significant gender effect in P scores between the male and female accounting practitioners.

In Celebration of 30 Years of Behavioral Research in Accounting

Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Citation Steven E. Salterio; In Celebration of 30 Years of Behavioral Research in Accounting. Behavioral Research in Accounting 1 March 2019; 31 (1): 1. https://doi.org/10.2308/bria-10681 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBehavioral Research in Accounting Search Advanced Search

Crowdsourcing Intelligent Research Participants: A Student versus MTurk Comparison

ABSTRACTThe use of online workers as research participants has grown in recent years, prompting interest in how online workers compare to traditional accounting research participants. To date, no study has compared the relative intelligence of online workers to student subjects. Such a comparison may be important to behavioral accounting researchers given the homogeneity of accounting students relative to online subject pools and given prior research suggesting accounting students have relatively high analytic ability. While graduate students outperform both undergraduate and MTurk participants on common intelligence tests and across two reasonably complex tasks, we find that MTurk participants perform similarly to undergraduate accounting students. Overall, our results provide incremental assurance that MTurk participants are suitable subjects when accounting expertise is not explicitly required. We also provide evidence that screening MTurk workers on intelligence scores may benefit researchers who require participants with relatively high cognitive ability.

If Eyes Are the Window to Our Soul, What Role Does Eye Tracking Play in Accounting Research?

Recent advances in technology have increased the accessibility and ease in using eye tracking as a research tool in both laboratory and field settings. These advances have the potential to benefit behavioral accounting researchers’ understanding of the cognitive processes underlying individuals’ judgments, decisions and behaviors. However, despite its potential and wide use in other disciplines, few behavioral accounting studies use eye tracking. The purpose of this paper is to familiarize accounting researchers with eye tracking including its advantages and limitations as a research tool. We start by providing an overview of eye tracking and discussing essential terms and useful metrics, as well as the psychological constructs they proxy. We then summarize eye-tracking research across research domains, review accounting studies that use eye tracking, and identify future research directions across accounting topics. Finally, we provide an instructional resource to guide those researchers interested in using eye tracking, including important considerations at each stage of the study.

If Eyes are the Window to Our Soul, What Role does Eye-Tracking Play in Accounting Research?

ABSTRACTRecent advances in technology have increased the accessibility and ease in using eye-tracking as a research tool. These advances have the potential to benefit behavioral accounting researchers' understanding of the cognitive processes underlying individuals' judgments, decisions, and behaviors. However, despite its potential and wide use in other disciplines, few behavioral accounting studies use eye-tracking. The purpose of this paper is to familiarize accounting researchers with eye-tracking, including its advantages and limitations as a research tool. We start by providing an overview of eye-tracking and discussing essential terms and useful metrics, as well as the psychological constructs they proxy. We then summarize eye-tracking research across research domains, review accounting studies that use eye-tracking, and identify future research directions across accounting topics. Finally, we provide an instructional resource to guide those researchers interested in using eye-tracking, including important considerations at each stage of the study.JEL Classifications: M41; C91.

The subject of behavioural accounting research

The aim of the paper is to present the subject of behavioural accounting research based on the definitions and typologies of its research areas that can be found in literature. The method of analysis of literature available on the Internet was used. Databases of scientific publications were searched using combinations of relevant keywords. Definitions were found in 2 books and 7 articles (including 2 in Polish), and for the purpose of presentation of the research areas 11 articles written in English were selected. Analysis of the definitions shows that they are very general, ambiguous and preliminary in nature. As for the attempts to systematise the work in the field of behavioural accounting, the classification of its research areas has not yet been established – we only have typologies that do not always fully reflect the specifics and the wide scope of this sub-discipline. The main value of the paper is in collecting and summing up the publications addressing the subject of behavioural accounting, which is a step in the process of systematizing its cur- rent research achievements and development of its identity.

Values of Participants in Behavioral Accounting Research: A Comparison of the M-Turk Population to a Nationally Representative Sample

ABSTRACTThe external validity of conclusions from behavioral accounting experiments is in part dependent upon the representativeness of the sample compared to the population of interest. Researchers are beginning to leverage the availability of workers via online labor markets, such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk (M-Turk), as proxies for the general population (e.g., investors, jurors, and taxpayers). Using over 200 values-based items from the World Values Survey (WVS), the purpose of the current study is to explore whether U.S. M-Turk workers' values are similar to those of the U.S. population. Results show for the majority of items collected, M-Turk participants' values are significantly different from the WVS participants (e.g., values related to trust, ethics, religious beliefs, and politics). We present select items and themes representing values shown to influence judgments in prior research and discuss how those values may affect inferences of behavioral accounting researchers.Data Availability: Data are available from the authors upon request.