3. Predicting the choice of accounting standards
With the aim of explaining the accounting choice of SMCs, and with the underlying
suspicion that the two main theories in the field may be used simultaneously to create an
explanation with more capacity than either theory alone, we start by creating predictions
about accounting choice. In this section, we will derive predictions about accounting choice
in SMCs which are based, first, solely on PAT reasoning (Section 3.1), and then on IT
reasoning (Section 3.2). The section ends with a summary demonstrating the complementary
nature of the two theories.