Alireza Kaab; Anzer R.N
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Today, budgets are considered by many as a powerful tool to conduct and control an organization's internal and external affairs. Budget, budgeting, and budgetary controls are the priority of every manufacturing and service entity. Top management in organizations uses budgets to monitor and control the ...
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Today, budgets are considered by many as a powerful tool to conduct and control an organization's internal and external affairs. Budget, budgeting, and budgetary controls are the priority of every manufacturing and service entity. Top management in organizations uses budgets to monitor and control the financial and nonfinancial activities that occur within their organization. The current research method is empirical, which tests the feasibility of a solution using empirical evidence based on statistical applications. The study considered SENSEX 30 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The statistical population comprised five top-level managers categories, including 150 respondents, eight mid-level managers, 240 respondents, and 12 lower-level supervisory cadres of 360 respondents. The total population is 750 respondents. "Simple Random Sampling Technique" used in the current study. Primary Data was collected using an Interview Schedule developed explicitly for the purpose and finalized after conducting the pilot survey. The collected primary data are validated, tabulated, and classified. Secondary data were collected from published articles, the Companies Act, the Accounting Standards Manual published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Websites, journals, and other validated material. The companies' annual reports were a significant secondary data source. Data analysis uses Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), and interpretations are made based on statistical tools. The results of the research indicated that most Indian companies set budgeting systems in accordance with accounting standards. The results of the current study also show some significant factors that need to be considered by the organization while setting budgets.
Hossein Salmanzadeh; Gholamreza Kordestani; Hossein Kazemi
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The management control system provides valuable information on the managers' needs at different levels of the organization. Today, with changes in the political, social and economic dimensions, the management control system in the public sector also needs to be changed and adapted to new conditions and ...
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The management control system provides valuable information on the managers' needs at different levels of the organization. Today, with changes in the political, social and economic dimensions, the management control system in the public sector also needs to be changed and adapted to new conditions and use new tools to meet stakeholders’ needs. The purpose of this study is to provide a model to investigate the role of the management control system and increase accountability in the public sector administrations and companies. In this regard, the present study explores the role of functions of management accounting in improving the management control system in the public sector. For this purpose, data were collected through interviewing 13 experts in the field of the management control system and functions of management accounting and reviewing related texts, articles and books in this field, and their content was analyzed through grounded theory and content analysis method and MAXQDA 2021 software was used for data analysis in 1399. The findings of this study showed that a management control system, if it has the necessary tools, can play a key role in preventing corruption, increasing transparency and accountability, performance-based budgeting, and performance-based auditing. The existence of a management control system is necessary for any organization; such a system will help identify resource flow, help management in decision making, motivate employees, make decisions related to outsourcing and contracting, reduce service delivery time, and many other issues in organizations, and it will ultimately lead to optimally allocate resources, prevent corruption, and increase legitimacy, transparency and accountability, Therefore, the optimal use of management accounting in the management control system, improves the achievement of organizational goals and the effectiveness of programs