Management accounting in supply chain management – literature review and survey results

Abstract

The concept of supply chain management has been evolving at a rapid pace in economic practice as wellas in scientific research, mainly in the field of logistics and supply chains. It also constitutes a reference point for researchers specializing in accounting, especially in management accounting. As a result, in recent years there has been an increasing number of publications on this research in the world, including in Poland. So far, however, there is a lack of publications that would present comprehensively the aspects of management accounting in the context of supply chain management. Therefore, this article has the following research objective: identification of the degree of development of management accounting, in research and practice, for the purposes of supply chain management. As research methods were used:review of the content of scientific articles and surveys conducted among companies in Poland. The results of survey study and literature review revealed that the most frequently addressed issues in business and in theory include cost management and performance measurement using financial indicators. In the case of other issues addressed in the publications there are discrepancies between theory and business practice. In effect, this means the need to improve the communication and integration of these two dimensions in the context of implementation of management accounting tools and methods for supply chain management support. The results presented in the article could be the basis for further, in-depth research in this area.

Keywords

• rachunkowość zarządcza
• instrumenty rachunkowości zarządczej
• zarządzanie łańcuchem dostaw
• łańcuch dostaw
• Polska
• management accounting