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Making Business Partners: A Case Study on how Management Accounting Culture was Changed

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Abstract There has been a lot of debate on the new business-oriented role of management accountants during recent years. This paper examines how a case company is trying to change its management accounting culture in practice. Furthermore, it illustrates how accounting practices are woven into the cultural fabric of an organization and the great diversity of practices constituting its business orientation. This longitudinal case study explores and theorizes the multiple cultural change interventions related to management accounting, including how the case company reorganized the management accounting organization, implemented new accounting systems and innovations, pursued a new kind of human resource management (recruitment, training and career planning policies) and set the official corporate values in order to support this change. The deepened decentralization of the business controller function, combined with the effective and increasingly centralized basic accounting systems (such as ERP and consolid...