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SYNOPSIS
With the development of technology and extension of economy in global terms, there has been, over the last two decades, a big supply of management accounting innovations in the different journals and articles to cope up with requirement of accounting information for the decision makers for managing the affairs of their business entities. The innovations or developments are mainly presented in terms of management accounting models like ABC, SMA. ... It is held that though the basic management accounting has remained the same, there have been attempts to meet with the contemporary requirements. This paper seeks to highlight the recent development, which has occurred in contemporary management accounting that still provides cost distorted information to business managers in today’s global and technology driven world. ... The whole management information system has become more sophisticated. More advanced system of information accounting is therefore needed to cope with the information accounting requirements for the successful management of the business entities. With the result, although the basic management accounting has not changed, there have been certainly changes in the adoption of new models to ensure better adjustment.
The management accounting practices have often been challenged in recent years and these challenges have brought about continuous improvement and increased relevance of the field. During the early stages of management accounting transformation, the emphasis was placed on improving the accuracy of product costing practices hence cost accounting was developed to allocate costs to each individual job or product to provide the necessary information for financial accounting reports. ... Anybody who makes decisions will probably end up using some kind of accounting information, which is very crucial in making economic decisions in particular.
Approximate Word count = 1301
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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