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The paper discusses how contingency theory and internal benchmarking posit that strategic development or success of a company is dependent on overall structure of the company and variable strategic factors. More specifically, the paper explains how outcomes can be directly linked to internal driving factors that are the basis for the overall structure of the firm. This paper uses this theoretical construct to highlight how management accounting information systems are driven by organizational structures and systems, and also identifies the internal factors that are benchmarks for the development of the management accounting information system.

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"Contingency theory and internal benchmarking posit that strategic development or success of a company is dependent on overall structure of the company and variable strategic factors. More specifically, outcomes can be directly linked to internal driving factors are the basis for the overall structure of the firm. This paper will use this theoretical construct to highlight how management accounting information systems are driven by organizational structures and systems, and also will identify the internal factors that are benchmarks for the development of the management accounting information system. The structure of the paper will..."

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