The conference will include all types of research pertinent to the conference title. Papers on the following topics are particularly welcomed:

• Design and implementation of new management accounting techniques
• Target costing in new product development and supply chain management
• Cost management in customer-supplier relationships and networks
• Customer-focussed cost and profitability analysis
• Cost and performance management in operations, sales and marketing
• Product and service complexity and implications for cost management
• Decision making support in innovative manufacturing and service contexts
• The impact of technological change on cost management
• New approaches to budgeting
• Capital budgeting for advanced manufacturing technology
• ERP systems, business intelligence and accounting information systems
• Cognitive biases, cost information and managerial behaviour
• Changes in the role of management accountants
• The impact of culture on managing cost and performance
• Comparative management accounting
• Research methods

The papers will be considered for presentation by the Organising Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 15, 2009. Presenters are expected to act as a discussant for other papers upon request of the Organising Committee.

Download the Call for Papers here.

To be eligible for presentation, papers MUST be submitted through the conference website of EIASM.