IMPACT OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION AS A BASIS FOR MANAGERIAL DECISION-MAKING

BACKGROUND

The department of a business known as management is in charge of formulating policies, creating programs, establishing standards, and putting them into practice with regard to the company’s financial, physical, and human resources. It is also responsible for maintaining the facility and its equipment and making sure that the supervisory, labor, and administrative forces are working as efficiently as possible.

In a word, management entails establishing objectives and monitoring the utilization of personnel and other resources to achieve those objectives.
Management is responsible for selecting each employee inside a company in order to carry out its inherent duties and responsibilities. For instance, the management must choose from a list of expected capital expenditures those having the highest likelihood of yielding a return.

It would be difficult to manage without the ability to make decisions.
This ongoing process has an effect on all aspects of organizational functioning. All stages of planning, organizing, acting, staffing, directing, and managing include making choices.
However, it must be remembered that every decision must take information into account. The choice will then be made while considering the facts at hand. Therefore, it must be of a high caliber and be sufficient, pertinent, and accurate. Only reliable information may support intelligent decisions, whether it is quantitative or not, accounting- or non-accounting-related.

Any organization’s accounting information system is made up of employees, equipment, protocols, checks, document files, and reports. Their major goal is to provide management and operational staff members information that will help them carry out an organization’s mission successfully and efficiently.

For many different reasons, accounting information has always been significant. It gives managers access to financial data for planning budgets and running businesses. However, management needs accounting data to be as accurate as possible in order to assess and monitor corporate activities. Many accountants have focused more on creating traditional financial accounting presentations rather than management accounting solutions.
Numerous decisions are impacted by accounting information, but little is known about how this influence manifests in other decision-making categories. Thus, information management should be more important to decision-making than the structure of traditional accounting presentation.

This study investigates the importance and influence of accounting information provided by internal accountants on sensible management decisions since it has always been the goal of internal accounting to provide important information for management.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Every action a person does requires a choice. There are times when a decision may be made with all the information required to choose the best alternative, with no information at all, or even with insufficient information. In these situations, selecting the right or incorrect answer will always have an impact. Several crucial judgment-making techniques have the potential to generate problems due to insufficient information if they are used incorrectly.
1. Knowledge: Emotions have a part in making decisions, which isn’t always the best course of action.
2. Experience: Making a choice that is incorrect for the current circumstance based on the past.
3. Authority: The boss has the power to decide since he is fully aware of the problem and even because of the important position he now holds. This is by no means the best.
4. Voting: Accepting accountability for the conservative effort at a vote (backpassing).
It is important to note that, even while these tactics may not always work, it is not mainly the responsibility of an individual to provide the information necessary for making judgements. It is necessary to gather the right information, assess it, and provide it in the right context in order to aid in making decisions that won’t result in any kind of resource loss. Did you know that factors like erratic government policies and inflationary inclinations, which often make it difficult to make the right decisions, have an influence on the Nigerian economy?
Thus, it is essential for every management in a company to be able to recognize the possibilities and risks that should be taken as well as those that should be avoided.