JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING RESEARCH Volume Fifteen 2003 pp. 95–116 Practice Developments in Budgeting: An Overview and Research Perspective Stephen C. Hansen The George Washington University David T. Otley Lancaster University Wim A. Van der Stede University of Southern California Abstract: Practitioners in Europe and the U.S. recently have proposed two distinct approaches to address what they believe are shortcomings of traditional budgeting practices. One approach advocates improving
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The Emergence of Activity Based Costing The Traditional cost accounting methods were designed around 1870-1920 and in those days industry was labour intensive and there were no machinery. The product variety was small and the overhead costs in companies were generally low compared to today. During the 1980s, it became clear the conventional techniques for recovering overheads were increasingly providing the management with cost information that was inaccurate and misleading. As a result new
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------------------------------------------------- In Management accounting or managerial accounting, managers use the provisions of accounting information in order to better inform themselves before they decide matters within their organizations, which allows them to better manage and perform control functions ------------------------------------------------- Definition[edit] IFAC Definition of enterprise financial management embracing three broad areas: cost accounting; performance evaluation and analysis; planning
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Business Research – July/August 2010 Volume 26, Number 4 A New Look At Management Accounting Mohammad Talha, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia John B. Raja, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia A. Seetharaman, S P Jain Center of Management, Singapore ABSTRACT This paper presents a comparison of the traditional management accounting with the new approach of management accounting with the use of latest information technology and manufacturing technologies. The information
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THE APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES FOR ENHANCING PROFITABILITY AND COMPETITIVENESS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF JAMAICAN MANUFACTURERS Phillip C. James University of Technology, Jamaica College of Business and Management School of Business Administration ABSTRACT This study represents the first in management accounting research in Jamaica which seeks to determine the extent to which innovative management accounting principles (IMAPs) are applied in the manufacturing
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ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING An organisation so as to be to comply with financial reporting requirements, the traditional cost accounting system is closely linked to its general ledger system. This in particular has to do with cost allocation. Mostly, costs are accounted either for valuation (i.e., financial statements analysis) or decision-making activities (i.e., internal purpose) or both. Meanwhile, sometimes the costs are accounted for reimbursement purposes (e.g., corporate health insurance, corporate
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theories also determines the price of the best alternative use of a factor of production and results in an efficient allocation of resources (Chand, 2015). The business will adopt the most profitable production inputs by identifying unprofitable activities, losses and inefficiencies (Chand, 2015) Costing theories also helps the decisions regarding the capital expenditure through the estimation of long-run function (Chand, 2015). This function will be useful to managers when deciding on the expansion
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Cost Accounting Systems A cost accounting system (also called product costing system or costing system) is a framework used by firms to estimate the cost of their products for profitability analysis, inventory valuation and cost control. There are two main cost accounting systems: the job order costing and the process costing. Traditional costing system calculates a single overhead rate and applies it to each job or in each department. Activity-based costing on the other hand, involves calculation
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possibilities would be extremely costly. So, managers often rely upon accounting costs as estimates of opportunity cost to save time and money. Accounting costs and Inventory costs A type of accounting process that aims to capture a company's costs of production by assessing the input costs of each step of production as well as fixed costs such as depreciation of capital equipment is referred as accounting cost. Cost accounting will first measure and record these costs individually, then compare
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is adopting a principle-based approach Introduction International Accounting Standards, IAS, is a term used in reference of a set of principles, guidelines and standards prepared by the International Accounting Standards Committee for the purpose of assisting business entities in ensuring that the information captured in their financial information is accurate and reliable (Vincent et al, 2003). This is achieved by highlighting how various accounting/financial activities and transactions are to
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