Search Results for management-accounting-tools

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The study primarily sought to determine the extent to which the integration of management accounting tools, represented by (activity-based costing system and balanced scorecard), with modern management practices has an impact on raising the quality of sustainable academic and administrative performance at the Samawah Technical Institute. To achieve the study's objective and answer its questions, a descriptive-analytical approach was adopted. The study population consisted of all academic and administrative leaders and staff at the Samawah Technical Institute. The study sample was determined according to the Krejcie & Morgan table, corresponding to a population of 315, where the optimal sample size was 173 individuals at a significance level of 0.05%. To ensure optimal distribution for each category (academics, administrators, and technicians), a stratified proportional sampling method was used. 210 questionnaires were distributed, and 188 were returned. After processing the returned questionnaires, 15 were found to be invalid due to errors, resulting in a final sample size of 173 questionnaires. After analyzing the data and testing the hypotheses, the study reached several key conclusions, most notably that activity-based costing is a primary tool for directing resources toward academic activities of global value. It also contributes to the optimal allocation of resources by linking each activity to its added value, thus enhancing confidence in managerial efficiency. Furthermore, the balanced scorecard contributes to improving overall performance by reducing bias in evaluating expected performance in traditional management systems, thereby strengthening confidence in a comprehensive measurement system that links financial and non-financial dimensions.

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The research aims to shed light on the stages of development of the balanced score card to the sustainable balanced score card. And according to what the sustainable balanced scorecard contains of many non-financial indicators in its three perspectives except for the financial one, so the research aimed to employ the card and identify its indicators, which usually function as a performance evaluation, so that those same indicators are the non-financial information that is disclosed within The integrated report model, which represents the most advanced generation of reporting.

The electronic payment card company Qcard was chosen to implement the proposed research model. As its financial and administrative reports were analyzed, in addition to conducting extensive interviews with the heads of various departments in the company, the sample of the research. The indicators that formed the sustainable balanced scorecard and which later represented the guide for preparing the integrated report form were identified after distributing the indicators that represent non-financial information on the nine components of the integrated report form.

And the most important conclusion was the operation of non-financial information, in addition to financial information, which led to the activation of management accounting tools, facilitating the formulation of the strategy of the economic unit, the implementation of the strategic objectives of the economic unit, and the achievement of sustainability requirements. Its performance from multiple points of view and enabled the management accountant and management to quantify expectations to the nearest degree of accuracy, which leads to correcting the evaluation process and expanding the area of ​​correction options that can be put forward in the strategic performance evaluation process. As for the most important recommendation, it was necessary to unify the efforts of academics and professionals to raise the level of application of management accounting tools in economic units, and to employ those tools in enabling units to achieve sustainability requirements, and the consequent necessity of developing management accountant skills in preparing reports that feed departments with information. Necessary to fulfill these requirements.