Our aim is, however, to explain the choice of an accounting standard set by municipal
corporations. The rational choice would therefore be a broad explanatory design, using
both PAT and IT in an attempt to explain accounting choice. The derivation and testing of
hypotheses from PAT and IT simultaneously seems to be rather infrequent (Bealing, 1994).
To our knowledge, only Mezias (1990) and Neu and Simmons (1996) have made distinct
efforts to empirically test a combination of two or more theories when explaining accounting
choice. Neu and Simmons (1996) leaned more on PAT and infused social relations and
context in their explanation, while Mezias (1990) leaned more on IT and added economic
factors in his explanation on financial reporting. Thus, there are still opportunities to explore
what a balanced attitude towards the two dominant theories can offer.