This study empically investigate the motives of accounting choices in software development costs. The independent variables explaining the accounting choice motives were firm size, capital intensity, debt to equity ratio, unexpected earning, effective...
This study empically investigate the motives of accounting choices in software development costs. The independent variables explaining the accounting choice motives were firm size, capital intensity, debt to equity ratio, unexpected earning, effective tax rate and ownership structure variables. The dependent variable was accounting method choice in software development costs(capitalizing/expensing). After the analysis, this study found out that unexpected earning and ownership variable were significant in explaining the accounting choice.