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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2020.vol7.no12.877

Factors Affecting Activity-Based Costing Adoption in Autonomous Public Universities in Vietnam  

HOANG, Thi Bich Ngoc (Department of Managerial Accounting, Thuongmai University)
PHAM, Duc Hieu (Department of Auditing, Thuongmai University)
NGUYEN, Thi Minh Giang (Department of Managerial Accounting, Thuongmai University)
NGUYEN, Thi Thanh Phuong (Department of Financial Accounting, Thuongmai University)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.7, no.12, 2020 , pp. 877-884 More about this Journal
Abstract
The main aim of the present study is to investigate the factors that are considered affecting the adoption of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) in the autonomous public universities in Vietnam. A quantitative research was carried out. The data was collected through an online questionnaire survey between June 2020 and September 2020 addressed to the target respondents comprising 168 managers and accountants from 23 autonomous public universities in Vietnam, which participated in the resolution project No. 77/NQ-CP of the Vietnamese government on the pilot renovation of operational mechanisms of public tertiary education institutions during the period of four years, from 2014 to 2017. The findings resulted from hypothesis testing by a binary regression analysis based on the SPSS 20.0 software show that training, competition, support of top manager, and university size are the four main factors that positively affect the adoption of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) in studied universities. On the other hand, no statistically significant impact was found on two other variables, namely the variety of services provided and the usefulness of cost information factors. From the research results, discussions and policy recommendations have been presented to promote the adoption of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) in Vietnamese autonomous public universities in the coming time.
Keywords
Activity-Based Costing; Adoption; Autonomous Public Universities; Factors; Vietnam;
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