Management accounting system: Insights from the decision making theories

Metacognition and Decision Making in Management Accounting Students

Competitive and skilled management accountants are needed for the companies' survival in an ever-changing world and also a world without borders. Therefore, the problem is what components in a decision maker brings out the best decision. Since learning is continuous and continuous learning is essential in an ever changing world in order for the company to survive. The aim of this study is to de...

decision-making in australia’s healthcare system and insights from complex adaptive systems theory

techniques for decision making in management accounting from an islamic perspective

methodologies adopted by the conventional management accounting in selecting between two or more alternative courses of action, both in the long-term and short-term decision-making, conflict with the overall objective of islamic enterprises. the paper explores the relevant literature (including the quran and the hadith) to ascertain the objective of an islamic enterprise and suggests an alterna...

Optimal decision making theories

In case of many decisions based on sensory information, the sensory stimulus or its neural representation are noisy. This chapter reviews theories proposing that the brain implements statistically optimal strategies for decision making on the basis of noisy information. These strategies maximize the accuracy and speed of decisions, as well as the rate of receiving rewards for correct choices. T...

Using Accounting Information in Decision Making of Hospitals Managers

Decision making process requires information. Accounting is the most important source of information. In 1998, the international federation of accountants issued a statement about the scope and using of accounting. It identified 4 stages for using accounting information: cost determination, planning and financial control, reduction of resources waste and creation the value. This study was desig...