In spite of all these arguments, it may still be an organization’s favourite choice to implement an integrated MAS design if, for example, the comparatively high incremental cost of providing separated accounting information is not compensated by advantages in management control.
This especially holds if the financial accounting standards are sufficiently suitable for management control purposes as well. Until now, several papers have identified such multi-purpose accounting principles or standards, e.g.,conservatism (Wagenhofer, 1996), fair value accounting(Ewert, 2006) or the valuation of construction contracts (Arnegger and Hofmann, 2007) under IFRS.