Information technology plays a significant role in the accounting industry. Accounting practitioners, therefore, are expected to possess necessary IT competencies to execute the day to day activities. However, IT competencies as always been viewed as a uni-dimensional construct, where focus in on imparting technical knowledge. There is a different between the ability to operate IT and IT compet...

The real challenge of business environment is derived from a situation where organizations need to find opportunities on how to introduce ideas and new products to market that provide future earnings stream. Management accounting is used as a tool in this process and provides information on opportunities and threats. The purpose of this research is to explain the role of management accounting i...

accounting is a social knowledge which is inherently related to the environment, values and economic, social and cultural norms of the society where it is used.thus it is better to consider the requirements, conditions and qualities of the target society when using the theoretical framework and standards of financial reporting. therefore, according to some researchers, the unconditional use of ...

the objective of this research is to identify the characteristics of cost accounting systems (cas) in manufacturing companies located in the state of fars. the research is designed to answer the following questions: 1- what kind of management information systems (mis) are in - use. 2-what information are provided by these systems. 3-how - offen financial information. are issues. 4- what groups ...