Management accounting in logistics and supply chain management: evidence from Poland

Abstract

Logistics develops dynamically, especially in business practice. It is visible both at the macro level – the development of the Transport–Freight Forwarding–Logistics sector, and at the micro-level – the automa-tion of logistics and the sustainable development of logistics function in the organization. Logistics has become an important source of cost reduction and value creation for companies. Therefore, they now need additional information support to remain in a competitive and dynamic market in the long term. Management accounting may be such a system. This means the importance of science's focus on integrat-ing management accounting and logistics and supply chain management issues. The aim of the article is to identify publications on management accounting that focus on logistics and supply chain management in selected scientific journals. Three scientific journals from Poland were used for the analysis: “Theoret-ical Journal of Accounting”, “Logistics”, “Research Papers of Wrocław University of Economics”. Veri-fication of papers covered the period 2010–2018. The analysis showed that a small number of articles in the selected journals simultaneously concerned management accounting in logistics activities. The arti-cles do not refer to scientific theories, and few of them present the results of their own empirical research carried out either by means of a survey or interviews.

Keywords

• management accounting
• controlling
• logistics
• supply chain management