Search Results for responsibility-accounting
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The research aims to demonstrate the importance of applying responsibility accounting in economic units and its role in evaluating the performance of responsibility centers by shedding light on responsibility centers and ensuring commitment to implementing the policies and objectives of the economic unit. The problem lies in the fact that the use of traditional methods of performance evaluation results from a lack of attention to administrative accounting aspects and a focus on applying the responsibility accounting system through evaluating the performance of cost centers. Due to their reliance on traditional methods and the lack of sufficient information, this has led to a weakness in performance evaluation according to modern methods. In order to achieve the research objectives and verify the validity of its hypotheses, the responsibility accounting system was applied, and the industrial sector was chosen as the research community and the General Company for Food Products, represented by the Amin Factory, as the research sample. The research concluded with a set of conclusions and recommendations, the most important of which was that the research found that there is weakness and shortcomings in the accounting reports and information provided by the factory, and the neglect of the aspect of preparing monthly, quarterly and annual reports, including the preparation of the annual budget plan to identify deviations and determine their causes to work on finding solutions that help in raising the effectiveness and efficiency of operations within the factory. The study recommends that responsibility centers should be defined accurately and clearly, with the responsibilities and activities associated with them and how to allocate costs to each center being clarified. The factory should work on improving production and administrative operations in the various responsibility centers in order to improve the overall performance of the factory. The accounting and evaluation system should be developed to be more comprehensive and effective, including the definition of clear and measurable performance standards for evaluating the performance of responsibility centers.
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This study aims to examine the impact of applying Social Responsibility Accounting (SRA) on rationalizing government expenditure in the Directorate of Persons with Disabilities and Special Needs in Babylon Governorate. It seeks to measure management awareness of the SRA concept, analyze the actual level of its application across its main dimensions (economic, social, and environmental), and clarify the extent to which such awareness contributes to the optimal use of financial resources. The study adopts a descriptive-analytical approach using the case study method. Data were collected through a questionnaire distributed to 60 respondents, of which 47 were returned, and 42 valid questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS software. The results indicate a high level of SRA implementation across all three dimensions. The findings of the main hypothesis test reveal a statistically significant effect of management awareness of SRA on government spending rationalization, with a coefficient of determination (R² = 0.765). Multiple regression analysis shows that the economic dimension has the strongest impact on rationalizing expenditure, followed by the environmental dimension, while the social dimension has a relatively weaker effect. The study recommends enhancing managerial awareness of SRA, adopting a clear accounting framework for performance measurement, and ensuring balanced support of economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Integrating SRA into institutional performance evaluation criteria would improve organizational performance, strengthen public trust, and support sustainable development.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a fundamental element of sustainable business operations, highlighting how companies contribute to solving social and economic problems. Poverty reduction is one of the most pressing of these problems and remains a key objective of national and international development agendas. This study examines how accounting disclosure of CSR can support policies aimed at poverty reduction and improve transparent reporting for decision-making among stakeholders. An inductive approach was adopted to address the research problems and theoretically test the hypotheses to achieve the research objectives. Practically, the research employed a descriptive approach to analyse the results of a questionnaire distributed to a sample of companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange. One of the most significant findings was a statistically significant relationship between accounting disclosure of CSR and sustainable development. The study concludes that the business sector's contribution to poverty reduction and sustainable development can be significantly enhanced through strong and consistent accounting disclosure of CSR.
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This research was conducted in one of the general directorates of the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, which is the General Directorate of Rusafa Electricity Distribution, for three years (2015, 2016, and 2017). The research focused on the problem of lack of interest in the accounting disclosure of social responsibility in the financial statements in the aforementioned directorate.
The aim of the research is to demonstrate the role of accounting disclosure on social activities carried out by economic units in the financial financial statements, in addition to explaining the role of accounting disclosure on social activities in evaluating the performance of economic units,
The research, through measuring social performance indicators that include financial performance and non-financial (social) performance, reached conclusions, the most important of which is the lack of accounting disclosure about the costs and expenditures of social responsibility despite the fact that the General Directorate for Distribution of Al-Rasafa Electricity bears the expenses of its social performance.
The researcher recommended the necessity of enacting laws and instructions that oblige economic units to pay attention to social performance and allocating the necessary sums in the state’s general budget and disclosing them in the financial statements in order to achieve the goal of social responsibility, which is to achieve the gains that can be achieved. These units are in their nature units aimed at achieving profits.