Featured in Volume 19 are articles on a call for future research on management accounting service quality budget ratcheting and performance effect of trust-in-superior and trustfulness on budgetary slack relationship between purposes of budget use and budgetary slack selection bias and endogeneity issues on the relationship between IT and firm performance strategic budgeting in public schools using a management accounting perspective to evaluate the production of future accounting professionals the links between management control approaches and performance measurement systems antecedents and consequences of cost.