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Judgment and decisionmaking research in accounting sarah e bonner accounting horizons. Jun 25, 2019 read a brief overview of areas where financial accounting helps in decision making for investors, lending institutions, and business managers. The literature in this area is extensive, and encompasses disciplines including auditing, financial accounting and management accounting. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Moreover, in addition to cataloging the types of errors induced by the manner in which people make judgments and choices, concern has now centered on explaining the causes of both the existence and persistence of such errors. A quest to improve the production, certification and use of accounting information judgment and decision making research hereafter jdm in accounting traces its roots back to the mid1970s as a part of a wave of accounting researchers who started to. Judgment and decisionmaking research in accounting and. Nine chapters by leading researchers offer a comprehensive.
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Request pdf judgment and decisionmaking research in auditing and accounting. If there are no alternatives, then no decision is required. And their two nobel prizes signaled the broad acceptance of the field of behavioral decision research as a mature area of intellectual study. Judgment and decision making in accounting contexts. Most of our judgments and choices are made under some uncertainty. The need for some guidance to help those making judgements came to light in earlier icas projects on principlesbased accounting standards and particularly while undertaking interviews for the report chinese accounting reform.
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