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This paper reports an initial empirical study into the interplay between the adoption of Lean Production within Just in Time (JIT) and a tendency towards increased sophistication of cost system(ABC) as cost accounting methods in Saudi Arabian companies by using survey data collected from 1 IS Saudi Arabia manufacturing firms. The specific focus was the concomitance of these defining issues ; Lean Production including Just in Time (JIT),ABC; Total Quality Management (TQM) , facets of organisational contexts ( quality of information technology, competitive pressures, company size, extent of use of innovative/strategic management accounting techniques and importance of cost information). The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between Lean production including Just-in-time and extent of the use of total quality management approaches; extent of use of innovative/strategic management accounting techniques; quality of information technology and importance of cost information
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