Abstract
To understand how and why the level cost changes is essential to efficiently manage an organization. Traditional cost accounting classifies them into fixed and variable, whether they change or not with changes in the activity level. Nevertheless, recent empirical research shows evidence of sticky costs because their response is stronger when the activity level increases that when such level falls. This paper shows that sticky costs are present in Spanish companies for the period 2005-2007 and that their magnitude is comparable with previous studies. This same type of study can be replicated in other international contexts provided that there are complete and publicly available databases, which means an interesting line of research.© 2018, Facultad de Contaduría y Administración, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. All rights reserved. Publication of the article implies full assignment of property rights (copyright) in Journal of Contaduría y Administración. The publication mreserves the right to total or partial reproduction of the work in other print, electronic or any other alternative means, but always recognizing its responsibility.
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