Hilton and Platt (2011) stated that management accounting is the process of identifying, measuring, analyzing, interpreting and communicating information in pursuit of organization’s goals. Management accounting is integral part of management process. It provides internal (financial and non-financial) information of the past, present, and future of an organization; and also provides external monetary and non-monetary measurement of the environment of the organization (Etemadi et al., 2009). Timeliness of management accounting system enables managers to respond to events quickly and provide them rapid feedback for effective decision-making. Example of management accounting practices are standard costing and flexible budgeting for cost control, cost allocation and product cost measurements; incremental analysis for decision-making; measurement of profit, contribution and return on investments for performance monitoring; financial management, cost management, effective budgeting and costing, and the full integration of internal cost accumulation systems with the external financial reporting systems (Ajibolade,2013). Also, Sunarni (2013) added that there are new management accounting techniques, these include activity based costing, target costing, kaizen costing, balance scorecard and others. Abdel-Kader and Luther (2006) stated that the most notable innovative management accounting techniques are activity based techniques, strategic management accounting and the balance scorecard.Kucera et al (2003) had stated that management accounting provides information for processing and utilization to organisation’s management information system. This implies that management information system is an important part of organization management accounting practices effectiveness. Examples of Management Information Systems are Sales Management Systems, Inventory Control Systems, budgeting systems, Management Reporting Systems (MRS), Personnel (HRM) systems), among others. The importance of management information system to management accounting systems is seen in the assertion of Etemadi et al. (2009) that management accounting system and management information system are linked together in any organization.
Howbeit, Lund (2003) states that organization’s culture affects management and managerial activities such as management information systems and management accounting systems practices, and thus can affect employees and the organizational performance. This made organizational culture to be an important factor in the relationship effect or link between management accounting systems and management information systems in organizations. This gave a base for this study. To this end, the study investigated management information and accounting system and organizational performance in Nigeria
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