Linking Business Strategy to Management Accounting: A Study in Malaysian Service Organizations
Hubungan Strategi Perniagaan dengan Perakaunan Pengurusan: Satu Kajian di Organisasi Perkhidmatan Malaysia

School of Accounting
Faculty of Economics and Management
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

sofiah@ukm.my

School of Accounting
Faculty of Economics and Management
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

rozita@ukm.my

School of Accounting
Faculty of Economics and Management
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

ainun@ukm.my

School of Accounting
Faculty of Economics and Management
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

ruhanita@ukm.my

Abstract

Despite being economically and socially important to Malaysia, little has been done to study the innovations in the administration of service organizations to maintain the survival of such organizations in the globalization era. The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of strategic management accounting (SMA), as an administrative innovation, by the service organizations operating in Malaysia. The literature suggested that business strategy is an important factor affecting the use of SMA techniques and, as a result, the use of SMA will differ with different strategic priorities. The SMA techniques studied are costing, competitor accounting and customer accounting, while business strategy includes cost leadership and differentiation strategies. Survey questionnaires were administered to managers yielding 62 usable responses. Using ANOVA, the present study finds that service organizations pursuing differentiation strategies place higher emphasis on competitor and customer accounting compared to service organizations pursuing cost leadership strategies. The results also reveal that the highest emphasis on all SMA techniques is found in service organizations that place high emphasis on both strategies.The study provides evidence regarding practices that place high emphasis on strategic issues that lead to a high usage of innovative information systems.

Keywords

business strategy; Malaysia; service organizations; Strategic management accounting

Citation

Md. Auzair, S., Amiruddin, R. A., Haji Abdul Majid, A., & Maelah, R. (2013). Linking Business Strategy to Management Accounting: A Study in Malaysian Service Organizations. Jurnal Pengurusan, 37, 45–52.

@article{mdauzair2013linking,
  title={Linking Business Strategy to Management Accounting: A Study in Malaysian Service Organizations},
  author={Md. Auzair, Sofiah and Amiruddin, Rozita and Haji Abdul Majid, Ainun and Maelah, Ruhanita},
  journal={Jurnal Pengurusan},
 

volume={37},
  number={},
  pages={45—52},
  year={2013},
  doi={},
  publisher={Penerbit UKM},
}

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