Bìznes Inform (Jan 2023)
An Instrumentarium for Managerial Accounting: Identification and Efficiency
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to study and substantiate approaches to the identification of objects, methods and instruments of managerial accounting based on its importance for the information support of the management system, interrelationships with other information systems and the management models selected for the application. The article substantiates the dominant importance of managerial accounting as a source of relevant information for making atypical, unformalized, uncertain, multipurpose, strategic managerial decisions and decisions which take attention of many criteria. The necessity of taking into account the content of managerial tasks and information requests in the identification of objects and instruments of managerial accounting is proved, which will increase the level of efficiency of the information provision process and the relevance of accounting data. The article determines the need for the inclusion in the managerial accounting subsystem of new objects that characterize the social, ecological and organizational components of economic activity, as well as financial and non-financial information that characterizes the state and development of the external socioeconomic environment, changes in the objects under study in the future. It is proposed to include in the managerial accounting instrumentarium such objects and instruments, the information characteristics of which are of interest to management staff, and their methodological processing is possible in accordance with the principles of building an accounting system and the stages of the accounting process. The problems of non-fulfillment by managerial accounting of the functions assigned to it due to insufficient level of professional qualification of managerial accounting specialists, lack of practice of regulating the relationships between management levels and producers of accounting information, existing organizational, methodological, technical and subject communication barriers are identified.
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