In a review article, Fields et al. (2001) criticise previous studies for their focus on single accounting policy choices and propose that research should consider examining several accounting method choices simultaneously as in Zmijewski and Hagerman (1981) to improve understanding. Missonier (2004) also concludes that although an impressive amount of empirical research on the motivational factors of the choice of accounting methods has been undertaken, the majority of this research focuses on a single, isolated accounting practice. This assumes that the accounting choices of managers are independent of each other, which is not appropriate. The rationale for examining multiple accounting choices is that if managers are insistent on accelerating or delaying the reporting of income, it would be more reasonable to expect them to do so by taking into account the accumulated effects of all their accounting procedures. The logic is easily understood from the viewpoint of accounting method strategies. In this study we use a number of accounting policy choices that managers may make.