Sunday, February 15, 2009

PAPER MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

DEFINITION AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
Accounting management is the discipline related to the use of accounting information by management and internal parties for purposes other product costing, planning, control and evaluation, and decision-making. The general instructional objectives of this course is expected to evaluate students and engineer the management accounting systems that match the operating conditions and organizational strategies.

Financial accounting is part of the accounting related to the preparation of financial statements for external parties, such as shareholders, creditors, suppliers, and government. The main principles used in financial accounting is the accounting equation (Assets = Liabilities + Equity)..........  
Financial accounting records in relation to any transaction for a company or organization and preparation of periodic reports from these records the results. This report is prepared for the public interest and is usually used to assess the company owner or manager of achievement used as a manager of financial accountability to its shareholders. This is important from a financial accounting of Financial Accounting Standards (SAK) which are the rules that must be used in the measurement and presentation of financial statements for external purposes. Thus, the expected users and compilers of financial reports can be communicated through these financial statements, because they use the same reference of SAK. SAK was began to be applied in Indonesia in 1994, replacing the Accounting Principles prinsi Indonesia in 1984. (Wikipedia)
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING HISTORY
In 1880an, American manufacturers began to concentrate in the development of production technology large capacity. The managers and engineers at metal company has developed a procedure to calculate the relevant cost product called scientific management. This procedure is used to analyze the productivity and profits of a product. However, as the development of accounting thought in 1914, then after the procedure began to disappear from corporate accounting practices.

After World War I, there are financial accounting rules that have reduced the impact of accounting information is useful for evaluating the performance of subordinates in a large company (lost relevance). Until the 1920s, all the managers believe the information related to primary production processes, transactions and events that generate a nominal amount of the financial statements. After the year 1925, the information used by managers to be more simple and more manufacturing companies in the United States have developed management accounting procedure known as now.

During more than sixty years, accounting academics trying to restore the relevance of accounting information with the boarding of financial accounting information. The business will use a simple manufacturing model, similar to the 19th century textile companies, and in order to overcome production problems, academics reorder supplies kos reporting information. Nevertheless, the model is too simple to explain the real problems faced by managers but it would dimahfumkan in order to facilitate the boarding of how information derived from financial statements can be made relevant to the decision-making (lodging management).

Beginning in the 1980s until now, management accounting experience a rapid period of development with its role as co-financial accounting. Johnson and Kaplan write beautifully in the "Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting". Books are good enough to read to understand about management accounting.