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dc.contributor.authorBeechey, John
dc.contributor.authorBaskerville-Morley, Rachel
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-20T05:13:29Z
dc.date.available2012-09-20T05:13:29Z
dc.date.issued2003-12
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/1961
dc.description.abstractFurther to a consideration of existing research on income allocation processes in CA partnerships, this report answers the questions: how was income allocated in the Big 8 and their predecessor firms in New Zealand, and why is stability for income allocation systems compromised by the need for these systems to accommodate the 'rainmakers'? The narratives of the views of survey and oral history interviewees participants on income allocation is complemented by a case study comparing and contrasting two firm changes, illustrated by partner narratives from two firms: Coopers & Lybrand and Deloittes Haskins Sells. The variety of income allocation models is attributed to the necessity for partners to undertake multiple roles in each partnership: "professional firms live or die by the rainmakers". It will be suggested that the previous advocacy of agency perspectives and theory of the firm theoretical perspectives do not provide a close fit with the data from this study. Instead, a population ecology approach (as adopted in organisational theory) is invoked to explain the constant flux in the choice of income allocation models in accounting partnershipsen_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_NZ
dc.subjectaccounting firm managementen_NZ
dc.subjectincome allocationen_NZ
dc.subjectaccounting partnershipsen_NZ
dc.titleProfit sharing in the Big 8 firms: Accommodating the rainmakersen_NZ
dc.typeConference Contribution - Oral Presentationen_NZ
dc.rights.holderAuthorsen_NZ
dc.subject.marsden150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classifieden_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationBaskerville-Morley, R., & Beechey, J. (2003, December). Profit sharing in the Big 8 firms: Accommodating the rainmakers. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Auckland Regional Accounting Conference, Auckland.en_NZ
unitec.institutionUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.institutionUniversity of Aucklanden_NZ
unitec.conference.title2nd Annual Auckland Regional Accounting Conferenceen_NZ
unitec.conference.locationAucklanden_NZ
unitec.conference.sdate2003-12-05
unitec.conference.edate2003-12-05
unitec.peerreviewednoen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Aucklanden_NZ
unitec.institution.studyareaAccounting and Finance


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