Competition is very heavy in today’s business environments due to
globalisation. In order to survive and be successful, businesses try hard to use
resources they own in the most productive manner. The most important resource
they own is information, which is a strategic vitality element. Cost accounting,
which emerged and developed beginning from the early 19th century, was a powerful
instrument for to determine and watch the costs related with products and services
that are being produced, and to gather the data necessary to bridge the gaps between
the aforementioned costs and decisions the managements would have to make. On
the other hand, changes which took place within the production environments by the
end of 20th century, increase of computers’ and automation systems’s presence raised
the expectations from accounting in terms of relevant data. Cost accounting failed
to satisfy the increasing needs for data in the increasing competition environment.
Because of all these reasons; a new cost approach has emerged, which enables
measuring success of businesses, and produces more accurate, more error-free and
more reliable data. This approach is ‘‘Strategic Cost Management”, which helps
businesses create forward strategies and gather necessary data.
The aim of this study is to reviewing historical development of cost
accounting within accounting information system and to tell the process of conversion
from cost accounting into strategic cost management. .
Competition is very heavy in today’s business environments due to
globalisation. In order to survive and be successful, businesses try hard to use
resources they own in the most productive manner. The most important resource
they own is information, which is a strategic vitality element. Cost accounting,
which emerged and developed beginning from the early 19th century, was a powerful
instrument for to determine and watch the costs related with products and services
that are being produced, and to gather the data necessary to bridge the gaps between
the aforementioned costs and decisions the managements would have to make. On
the other hand, changes which took place within the production environments by the
end of 20th century, increase of computers’ and automation systems’s presence raised
the expectations from accounting in terms of relevant data. Cost accounting failed
to satisfy the increasing needs for data in the increasing competition environment.
Because of all these reasons; a new cost approach has emerged, which enables
measuring success of businesses, and produces more accurate, more error-free and
more reliable data. This approach is ‘‘Strategic Cost Management”, which helps
businesses create forward strategies and gather necessary data.
The aim of this study is to reviewing historical development of cost
accounting within accounting information system and to tell the process of conversion
from cost accounting into strategic cost management.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Economics |
Other ID | JA48KA99GJ |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | January 1, 2016 |
Published in Issue | Year 2016 Issue: 10 - Issue: 10 |