Choi and Muelller (1984) deduced that international accounting concepts , like the other social sciences, are premised on or derived from environmental analysis. T hey asserted, "Accounting innovation and development are triggered by non - accounting factors". They concluded with a list of environmental factors that they believe to have direct effect upon accounting development, which include:
1. Legal system;
2. Political system;
3. Nature of business ownership;
4. Differences in size and complexity of business firms;
5. Social climate;
6. Level of sophistication of business;
7. Degree of legislative business inference;
8. Presence of specific accounting legislation;
9. Speed of business innovations;
10. Stage of economic development;
11. Growth pattern of an economy;
12. Status of professional education and organization.
Though detailed, this kind of illustration seems vague for grasping an outline of environmental factors, as some of the factors overlap according to domain. By analyzing the factors mentioned above, the author conceives that factor 3, 4, 6, 9,10,11 can be taken into the domain of economic factor; factor 1 and 7 belong to legal factor ; factor 5, social climate, attributes to the dimension of culture, thus five aspects of factors, legal, political, economic, cultural and professional factors, can be recognized from Cho i and Mueller's work. Cho i and Mueller did not give much more attention to the interrelationship of cultural and economic 'values', even though they suggested it w ould be a significant breakthrough in the dimension of accounting research, if international accounting researchers c ould incorporate cultural analysis in their studies.