The Role of Accounting Information, Environment and Management Control in Multi-National Organizations

1987 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brownell
Keyword(s):  
Accounting Information ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
National Organizations

Outsourcing relationship management: accounting in the decision mix

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Mirghani Nimir Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Management Accounting ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Monitoring Cost ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The paper aims to examine the role of management accounting and accounting information in decisions to outsource and manage outsourcing relationships. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a case study method. Data are collected through semi-structured interviews and informal discussions with executives of the participating companies. Official documents and secondary materials were analysed. Findings The findings of these cases present evidence of some roles given to accounting information and varying tasks assumed by accountants and finance staff in the outsourcing projects undertaken. These roles and tasks range from financial evaluation of new outsourcing proposals and alternatives, consultation and price negotiations in the planning and feasibility stages to the management of outsourcing relationships including monitoring, cost analysis, performance measurement, internal audit, design and implementation of risk-reward payment schemes. Managing the outsourced functions in one case involved in the use of informal control mechanisms such as trust, knowledge sharing, mutual understanding and cooperation between partners. Practical implications The paper highlights the role of management accounting and information in outsourcing relationship management and evaluation. The case findings provide the opportunity for management practitioners to understand the strategic role of management accountants in the management of inter-firm relationships. Originality/value The case study presents new empirical evidence of the role of management accounting and accounting information in the management control of outsourcing relationships.

The Impact of Uniform Pricing Regulations on Incentives to Generate and Disclose Accounting Information

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil Arya ◽  
Brian Mittendorf ◽  
Dae-Hee Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Price Discrimination ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Welfare Gains ◽  
Uniform Pricing ◽  
Input Markets ◽  
The Impact

A persistent question in industrial organization is whether regulations restricting price discrimination in input markets can promote efficiency. Despite the extensive study of the economic effects of input pricing regulations, the literature is bereft of an examination of the role of accounting information. In this paper, we seek to fill the gap by modeling the effects of uniform pricing restrictions in input markets on firms’ information generation and disclosure. In doing so, we find that information considerations present an impetus for uniform pricing requirements since they promote incentives for retail firms to both acquire and disclose relevant accounting information. In effect, by shielding retail firms from excessive supplier exploitation, uniform pricing regulations create a richer and more transparent information environment. This, then, leads to welfare gains and even benefits that can accrue naturally to all supply chain partners including the supplier, whose actions are constrained by the uniform pricing regulation. This paper was accepted by Brian Bushee, accounting.

Selecting Railway Investments in 1890s America

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Joel E. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Accounting Data ◽  
Rational Decisions

ABSTRACT The purpose of financial reporting is to provide information to investors and creditors to help them make rational decisions (Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB] 2010). Tracing the development of investors' methods should help with understanding the role of financial accounting. This study examines investment practices involving railways in 1890s America. As such, it furthers our knowledge about the development of investment methods and their necessary information. Moreover, it shows that as investment methods grew in sophistication, there was an enhanced demand for greater comparability in accounting data to make meaningful analyses. Competing investment strategies, largely devoid of accounting information, are also discussed.

Agenda-Setting Dynamics during the Campaign Period

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Partheymüller
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Agenda Setter ◽  
Memory Decay ◽  
The Media

It is widely believed that the news media have a strong influence on defining what are the most important problems facing the country during election campaigns. Yet, recent research has pointed to several factors that may limit the mass media’s agenda-setting power. Linking news media content to rolling cross-section survey data, the chapter examines the role of three such limiting factors in the context of the 2009 and the 2013 German federal elections: (1) rapid memory decay on the part of voters, (2) advertising by the political parties, and (3) the fragmentation of the media landscape. The results show that the mass media may serve as a powerful agenda setter, but also demonstrate that the media’s influence is strictly limited by voters’ cognitive capacities and the structure of the campaign information environment.

An IFRS 1 Application Role in the Relevant of Accounting Information from the Users of Financial Statements Prospective: An Applied and Analytical Study at Asia Cell Communications Company

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahlaa Kamel Abdulhassan ◽  
Salama Ibrahim Ali
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Future Expectations ◽  
Suitable Concept

The research aims to study the requirements of a IFRS (1) standard and the statement of a suitable concept and its importance for users of financial statements and the role of applying of IFRS (1) standard also aims to test the ability of applying the standard requirements in companies listed on the Iraqi Stock Exchange, and the relevant of the accounting information for the users of those companies in light of applying those standards. The research reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which was that of the standard, the application of the IFRS (1) standard requirements, describe the transformation process to IFRSs as a transformational stage, as the stage involves adopting the economic unit of standards  on a set of procedures, methods and accounting treatments that unit should perform for the purpose of preparing financial statements in accordance with international standards and optional and compulsory exceptions that it facilitates the adoption process, in addition, the reports and financial statements aim to provide useful and appropriate accounting information that meets the needs of its users, as the property of predictive value in accounting information improve the ability of companies to predict the results of future expectations, the property of value assurance in accounting information provides the ability to change or correct current or future expectations, and it reduces the degree of uncertainty when it has feedback.

The Role of Green Accounting Information In Improving The Quality Of Accounting Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wasan Yahia Ahmed ◽  
Suaad Adnan Noaman Al-Shammari ◽  
Ahmed Taher Kadhim Al-Anbagi
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Green Accounting ◽  
Quality Of Accounting Information ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Role Of Information

The subject of green accounting is one of the modern topics in accounting science, which has received great attention by researchers and writers because of its great role in measuring and disclosing environmental activities and in line with the interests of internal and external users of accounting information.  The research stems from a fundamental problem that taking into account the costs of green accounting within the financial statements of economic units would improve the quality of accounting information provided to users. To achieve the goal of the research, a questionnaire was designed and submitted to the stakeholders of users of information and employees of a number of economic units listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange, as well as the use of different statistical methods and methods to extract results related to the role of information on green accounting in improving the quality of accounting information provided by Before economic units. The research reached several results, the most important of which was the need to take into account the costs of green accounting and manifested within the financial statements of economic units, because of its role in improving the quality of accounting information and commensurate with the interests of users, so it should work to measure those costs and disclosed to contribute to Meet the wishes and interests of users of financial statements.

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