Improving Business Profitability through Cost Control and Cost Reduction

CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION

One of the primary goals of any business organization is to maximize profitability. This is achieved by increasing revenue while minimizing costs. Cost control and cost reduction are two strategies that businesses can use to achieve this objective. In this essay, we will discuss the importance of cost control and cost reduction and how they can help businesses improve their profitability.

Cost control refers to the process of monitoring and managing expenses to prevent them from exceeding the budget. It involves setting budgets, tracking expenses, and identifying areas where costs can be reduced. Cost reduction, on the other hand, refers to the process of minimizing expenses to achieve a lower cost of production or operation. This can be achieved by reducing waste, improving efficiency, or renegotiating contracts with suppliers.

Cost control and cost reduction are essential strategies for improving profitability in a business organization. Firstly, by controlling costs, businesses can avoid overspending and ensure that expenses do not exceed revenues. This helps to maintain a healthy cash flow and avoid the risk of running out of funds. Additionally, it enables businesses to allocate resources effectively, prioritize projects, and invest in areas that generate the most returns.

Secondly, cost reduction helps businesses to improve their competitiveness by offering products or services at lower prices than their competitors. This can be achieved by reducing the cost of production or operation, which in turn reduces the price of goods or services. Lower prices attract more customers, which can lead to increased revenue and profitability.

Thirdly, cost control and cost reduction can help businesses to adapt to changing market conditions. In times of economic uncertainty or market downturns, businesses that have implemented cost control and cost reduction strategies are better positioned to weather the storm. They can reduce expenses without sacrificing the quality of products or services, which enables them to maintain profitability even during challenging times.

In conclusion, cost control and cost reduction are critical strategies for improving profitability in a business organization. By controlling costs, businesses can maintain a healthy cash flow, allocate resources effectively, and avoid overspending. Cost reduction, on the other hand, helps businesses to improve their competitiveness, adapt to changing market conditions, and increase profitability. Implementing these strategies requires a proactive approach, careful planning, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Inventory Control in Nigerian Manufacturing Companies

CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION

Inventory control is an essential aspect of managing a manufacturing company’s supply chain. It involves managing the inflow and outflow of goods to ensure that the right amount of inventory is available to meet customer demand while minimizing costs. In Nigeria, manufacturing companies face various challenges in inventory control, including poor infrastructure, supply chain disruptions, and inadequate inventory management systems. However, conducting a cost-benefit analysis of inventory control can help companies make informed decisions about how to manage their inventory efficiently.

One of the benefits of inventory control is that it can reduce the costs associated with holding excess inventory. Excess inventory ties up valuable capital and warehouse space, increasing the company’s overhead costs. On the other hand, insufficient inventory can lead to stockouts, missed sales opportunities, and lost customers. By implementing effective inventory control systems, Nigerian manufacturing companies can strike a balance between holding sufficient inventory to meet demand while minimizing the costs associated with holding excess inventory.

Another benefit of inventory control is that it can improve the accuracy of demand forecasting. Accurate forecasting helps companies anticipate changes in demand and adjust their production schedules and inventory levels accordingly. This reduces the risk of stockouts and overstocking, enabling companies to meet customer demand more efficiently. Accurate demand forecasting also allows companies to optimize their production schedules, reducing the risk of idle production capacity and increasing overall efficiency.

Moreover, effective inventory control can improve customer satisfaction. By maintaining optimal inventory levels, companies can fulfill customer orders promptly, reducing lead times and improving on-time delivery performance. Satisfied customers are more likely to repeat their business and recommend the company to others, ultimately driving sales and revenue growth.

However, implementing inventory control systems can also come with costs, including the cost of implementing new software, hiring additional staff, and training employees on the new system. Therefore, a cost-benefit analysis is crucial in determining the feasibility of implementing inventory control systems.

In conclusion, inventory control is crucial for Nigerian manufacturing companies looking to optimize their supply chain operations. Conducting a cost-benefit analysis can help companies identify the benefits and costs associated with implementing inventory control systems and make informed decisions about the optimal level of inventory to hold. By striking a balance between inventory levels and costs, companies can enhance their efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, and drive revenue growth.

Corporate Objectives and the Importance of Disclosing Accounting Data

CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION

Corporate objectives refer to the strategic goals and targets set by a business to guide its operations towards achieving success. These objectives typically include profitability, growth, customer satisfaction, and social responsibility, among others. In pursuit of these objectives, companies are required to maintain accurate accounting records, which are crucial in evaluating their financial performance and making informed decisions.

Disclosing accounting data is an essential aspect of corporate transparency and accountability. This information includes financial statements, which show a company’s financial position, performance, and cash flows over a given period. Companies are required to make these disclosures publicly available to stakeholders, including investors, regulators, employees, and customers.

There are several reasons why the disclosure of accounting data is crucial for companies. First, it promotes transparency, which is critical in building trust with stakeholders. When companies provide accurate and timely financial information, investors can make informed decisions about investing in the company, while regulators can monitor compliance with accounting standards and regulations.

Secondly, disclosing accounting data enhances accountability by allowing stakeholders to monitor a company’s financial performance and assess its compliance with its stated objectives. For example, investors can use financial statements to evaluate a company’s profitability and growth prospects, while employees can use this information to assess the company’s ability to provide job security and competitive compensation packages.

Furthermore, the disclosure of accounting data promotes ethical behavior by discouraging fraudulent activities such as accounting manipulation and financial misstatements. When companies provide accurate and transparent financial information, they are less likely to engage in unethical practices that could harm stakeholders and damage the company’s reputation.

In conclusion, corporate objectives and the disclosure of accounting data are essential components of successful business operations. Companies must set strategic goals that align with their values and disclose accurate financial information to promote transparency, accountability, and ethical behavior. Failure to do so can lead to legal and reputational damage, and hinder their ability to achieve their objectives.

CREATIVE ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA.

CREATIVE ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE

Many accounting and business scandals that have occurred throughout the years have drawn attention to the accuracy of the information given by corporate organizations across the globe. The financial statements of the firm did not adequately depict the company’s financial status, according to the report of the creative accounting scandal at African Petroleum PLC (Oyejide&Soyibo, 2001). Similarly, a Cadbury Nigeria Plc accounting issue in November 2006 produced more concerns than it did answers concerning creative accounting (Itsueli, 2006). The Nigerian banking sector has seen an increase in creative accounting practices in recent years to draw unwary investors or earn unjustified accounting-based incentives by portraying an overstated, misleading, or deceptive condition of the bank’s financial affairs (Sanusi&Izedonmi 2013). The problem that caused Diamond Bank to fail in 2017 and 2018 is not implausible.

The practice of “creative accounting,” or falsifying financial reports, is dishonest, risky, and unethical. The legitimacy of the accounting and auditing roles is being threatened by the rising problem of creative accounting. The issue of creative accounting is not new, but in the 1980s it was one of the major issues in corporate finance and corporate governance (Merchant &Rocknes 1994). The intricacy of its techniques and terminology have expanded globally, and by the early 1990s, national and international authorities had firmly established creative accounting as one of their top issues in financial reporting. Hence, “Creative Accounting” is the phrase that is used the most commonly both in the USA and abroad, but “Earnings Management” is a word that is regularly used in Europe. Creative accounting is also known as income smoothing, earnings smoothing, cosmetic accounting, financial crafts, or accounting crafts in other writings. Ironkwe and Umobong (2017) Innovative accounting practices have led to the collapse of several firms and enormous financial losses for shareholders and other investors.

Freddie Mac, Enron, Worldcom, Parmalat, American Insurance Group (AIG), Victoria (2014), and other significant firms were all involved in accounting scandals that included fraud, irregularities, and serious misstatements (Odoh&Udeh 2009). The existence of creative accounting and its detrimental impact on the credibility of financial reporting and firm survival have been seen in the corporate environment of Nigeria. These stakeholders base many of their significant choices on financial information taken from the financial accounts (Susmus&Demirhan, 2013). Hence, for these individuals to make the right judgments, their correctness and dependability are essential.

The fall of Enron in 2001 made this reality more significant, and its significance increased with the current financial crisis as a result of the failure of significant financial institutions. In Nigeria, the Cadbury case revealed a huge overstatement of the company’s financial situation over a number of years. The situation is similar but equally unpalatable in the United States, where Enron, which grew to be the seventh-largest firm in the country in only 15 years, went out of business when it was found that it had been faking its profits (Amatorio, 2005).

While it should stray from the spirit of accepted accounting principles, creative accounting should adhere to the letter of the law. Asuquo (2011) asserts that they are distinguished by excessive complexity, the employment of creative methods to describe income, assets, or obligations, and the aim to sway readers’ opinions. Sometimes, the words “innovative” or “aggressive” are employed. The financial statement is undoubtedly the most significant and valuable document for all users, but particularly for shareholders or investors who are making decisions. They may learn vital information about the efficiency of the firm from the financial statement itself. Yet, when revenue is purposefully and artificially smoothed, it may lead to insufficient or deceptive income disclosure (Ashari, Koh Tan & Wong, 1995). Shareholders and investors may not have enough information to assess the organization’s success as a result of creative accounting.

 

A PERCEPTION STUDY OF TAX EVASION AND REVENUE GENERATION IN LAGOS STATE,NIGERIA

A well-functioning society, such as a state or nation’s government, owes its subjects a number of essential obligations. These promises take the form of providing basic social amenities, such as clean water, accessible healthcare, secure and functioning roads, and protection for people and their property. The people are accountable to the government for paying taxes and other levies on their behalf. In light of these facts, the government collects taxes from the people to pay for the fulfillment of the aforementioned duties. Tax evasion is widespread in Borno State, and Nigerians have a negative perception of the state’s ability to generate domestic money.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 2014, reports that N2, 444,613,205.43 was the entire amount of domestically produced revenue for the year 2012. Tax evasions happened, especially among certain Nigerians who hid behind dubious tax officials. Borno State government revenue is being seriously impacted by tax irregularities, according to Olabisi (2010), who argued that the Nigerian tax system is not effective and efficient in its entirety because there is no database of all taxable persons, the system in place for the assessment and collection of taxes is insufficient, and there are no firm measures in place.

By allowing for loopholes, dishonest tax officials, a lack of proper data, and a number of other problems, the existing tax system has made the situation worse. However, decreasing the tax rate is not the ideal solution to the problem since some people would still try to cheat the system.

Regardless of their rates, taxes. This study is urgently needed in order to reawaken Nigerians’ awareness of the effects of tax evasion dependence on revenue generation in Borno state and to take into account the significant financial and human resources committed by the government in an effort to increase the reach of the tax database.

Nigerians believe that paying income taxes helps the government gather more money in taxes at the cost of their work. Recently, a number of Nigerians have voiced concern over the issue of tax evasion and its effects on the nation’s economy and income generation. Due to growing concern about the scope of tax evasion, several research in different countries have been conducted on the amount of unreported income and the factors influencing this phenomenon, especially in developing economies.

The enforcement system for Nigerian tax rules seems to be so weak that people might simply get around it. It is evident that the Nigerian tax system has elements that often enable economic operators to evade paying taxes. One of the defenses offered in the literature on taxes is that the Nigerian government mainly concentrates on collecting money and only very seldom utilizes tax revenue to build social facilities for the benefit of taxpayers (Ogbonna, 2012). The lack of openness and clarity in the process of producing tax income and its expenditure on nearly equivalent construction projects are only two of the concerns that require more scrutiny.

According to studies by Ross and McGee (2012), Yalama and Gumus (2013), Gupta (2009), Mughai and Akram (2012), Abbasi and Heidarymadi (2012), and Hove (2012), economic considerations, domain factors, administrative factors, and other factors strongly affected tax evasion behavior (2013).

The study discovered that attitudes on the justification of tax evasion did differ according on demographic variable factors. Also, they argued that the respondent’s place of residence, gender, occupation, and educational background are the key determinants of tax evasion. Studies by Sylvester (2016), Abiola and Asiweh (2012), Obafemi (2014), Olabede (2012), Onyeka and Nwankwo (2016), and Adebisi and Gbegi (2013) concentrated more on the causes of tax evasion in Nigeria; however, their claims were still supported by studies by Sylvester, Abiola, and Asiweh, Obafemi, and Obafemi and Gbegi. However, studies conducted at the state level in Nigeria by Angahar and Alfred (2012) Enahoro and Jayeola (2012), Wambai (2013), Jamala et al (2013), Akinyomi and Okpala (2013), Asur and Nkereuwum (2013), Imam et al (2014) Chukwudi (2016) Mansur (2016), and others found that; low quality of the service in return for tax paid, tax system and view of fairness, low transparency and answerability of government officials The findings’ apparent lack of consensus is one of the topics that needs to be examined.

 

AN ANALYSIS ON COST-VOLUME-PROFIT AND PROFITABILITY TARGET

CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION

Background to the study

Cost volume profit analysis is a methodical way to look at how changes in volume, or production, affect overall savings, revenue, expenses, and net profit. Cost volume profit analysis, which serves as a model for these connections, simplifies the actual conditions that a corporation would encounter, unlike models, which are an abstraction of reality. A variety of underlying assumptions and restrictions are placed on cost-volume-profit analysis.
Profit is a key indicator of a company’s success in a free market economy since it serves as a guide for wise resource allocation. Understanding how different variables impact profit is a crucial step in financial planning and decision-making. Making. Cost volume profit analysis refers to the analytical methods used to investigate how profit responds to changes in volume, price, and other variables (CVP). However. It should be emphasized that budgets and other forecasts are used in formal profit planning and management. Cost volume profit analysis is a good place to start when figuring out how much must be sold to break even and how much must be sold to reach the company’s profit target.
Consequently, the “concealed in efficiency” that was first stated by Outer and Brown (1984) in order to thrive in the modern economic environment must be found and standards established.

To guarantee even a small profit margin, strict supervision must be instituted and forecasts must be prepared. The cost variations are managed efficiently and effectively.
The development and survival of an organization will mostly depend on price, production (volume), and eventually profit. The activity (volume saving) point at which overall revenues and total costs are equal is known as the break-even point. It serves no purpose less or more. Only in cases when decisions about pricing, volume, and cost can be divided into two categories is the break-even point possible. Cost volume analysis is a tool used to evaluate the effectiveness of the firm’s short-term profit planning. It is an analytical approach used to examine how profit behaves in response to changes in volume, cost, and price.
An application of marginal costing, cost volume profit analysis, also known as break-even analysis, tries to investigate the link between cost volume and profit at various activity levels. It may be a valuable tool for short-term planning and decision-making. For known cost patterns and linkages to continue to hold true with bigger changes in activity and over the long term existing cost structure of the amount of fixed cost and marginal, it is more pertinent when the proposed changes in activity are relatively minor. Cost volume profit analysis is unlikely to provide valuable information since cost per unit is likely to fluctuate.

 

Implementation of proper accounting record keeping on business performance ratio in Nigeria

Implementation of proper accounting record keeping on business performance ratio in Nigeria

CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION

Early civilizations have kept records of accounts for thousands of years. The name “monetary records” refers to a bookkeeping technique where each entry to one account must be matched by an opposite entry to another. Lucapaoli, 1992.
The process of gathering, documenting, classifying, analyzing, processing, and summarizing business transactions in the books of accounts is known as accounting records keeping. A system should be simple to operate, understand, trustworthy, precise, consistent, and designed to give information rapidly (Romney, 2003). The advantages of effective record management include incorporating new records management technology, limiting the expansion of records to reduce operating expenses, and guaranteeing regulatory compliance.

Thanks to compliance and an accurate accounting record, the corporate organization is able to plan efficiently and look for resource misappropriations. The success and continuation of the company are dependent on maintaining correct books of accounts. In order to ensure the efficacy and survival of corporate organizations, management must use reliable, appropriate, accurate, and current financial information for planning and decision-making. (Edun, 2013). Due to poor record keeping, it is difficult to discern between business and personal interactions. (Aardt, 2008). It is known, however, that many small businesses still fail for a variety of reasons, including poor financial record keeping. (2012) Samuel
Even companies that keep accounting records didn’t keep all the necessary books of accounts up to date (Antony, 2014). It has been demonstrated that the majority of small enterprises do not keep thorough accounting records due to a lack of accounting knowledge. Because of this, accounting data is not successfully used to determine financial performance. Even though keeping records is important for planning and decision-making, small firms still struggle to preserve accurate books of accounts (Maseko, 2011).

Business performance and management training, especially in the area of record keeping for businesses, are highly associated. Good business management includes keeping accurate records of all business transactions. Knowledge and skill in bookkeeping, in particular, are a crucial factor that positively affects the survival and growth of SMEs. If business transactions are not recorded, the company will fail (Howard, 2009).
Many nations consider bookkeeping to be a technique of ensuring economic progress. For a company to thrive, develop, and stand out, bookkeeping must be dynamic, trustworthy, and productive. Thus, keeping correct financial records has become crucial in the challenging and competitive corporate world of today.

business setting. The capacity to maintain correct accounting records aids in business associations’ ability to plan well and monitor corporate asset theft. The maintaining of proper books of records is crucial to the development and survival of a firm. 2012 (Ademola). The role should be filled by a skilled bookkeeper who has the skills necessary to manage money effectively, as this is essential to any organization’s success. The management of organizations and the development of business strategy both depend critically on competent financial record keepers. Higher-level accountants have a bigger impact on a company’s core leadership structure (Tout, 2014).

A solid system of financial record-keeping will give SMEs the data they need to make the best business decisions. Even though keeping correct accounting has been suggested as a possible component in enhancing organizational success. (Azeko, 2015).
Weak managerial abilities and a lack of strategic leadership are blamed for business failures, and it has been established that poor or nonexistent record keeping, particularly in SMEs, contributes to business failure (Germain, 2010)

Prior studies on the expansion and development of small firms acknowledged the importance of keeping correct records in promoting such growth; other studies highlighted a lack of maintaining financial records as the primary impediment to that growth in the small business sector (Tylor, 2008).
Medium-sized and small companies

 

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND FINANCIAL REPORTING IN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION

The demand for environmental accounting is now being addressed by responsible corporate management and national governments. It rose to the top of governments’ and businesses’ priorities earlier in the 1990s as a result of a number of internal and external causes, particularly on a global scale (Okoye and Ngwakwe:2004:220-235). Nigeria is one of the many nations in the world that have enacted several environmental protection laws and rules. As people became more conscious of the need to protect the environment, laws like the Environmental Impact Assessment Act of 1992 and the Environmental Guidelines and Standards for the Petroleum Industry in Nigeria (EGASPIN: 2002) were enacted. These encourage company managers to consider the environment while making all internal decisions. All organizations under the direction of the Nigerian environmental policy agencies are also urged to give their judgments great consideration. Environmentalists agree that it may be more profitable and cost-effective for firms to invest in clean technology or pollution prevention measures rather than pollution cleaning methods. Additionally, it has been highlighted that market-driven environmental regulations are substituting pollution prevention strategies for ‘command and control’ methods of pollution control. As a result, management may need to make further decisions after choosing the optimum pollution avoidance method. Such choices may entail selecting capital expenditures, according to Shield, Beloff, and Heller (1996:5). For instance, the emergence of markets for emissions permits may force companies to choose between purchasing and selling these allowances based on the cost of avoiding the covered emissions.
Environmental issues for economics and cost accounting have also been a point of contention during the last forty years. This is because there isn’t broad agreement on how to value unmarketed, unmonetized resources and the influence they have on externalities.

Commercial concerns used to be ranked in order of importance by corporate organizations. Businesses also categorize all indirect expenses as overhead without taking the environment into account. Conventional accounting practice does not take into consideration environmental accounting for the usage of materials, water, energy, and other natural resources.
Furthermore, standard accounting does not yet contain such an approach, particularly the accounting for the effect on externalities. B. Field and M. Field (2002) claim that it wasn’t until a few well-intentioned people in industrialized countries realized that it was futile to have large corporate profits and material well-being if they came at the price of a significant portion of the ecology that sustains us. Rapid ecosystem degradation, pollution, biodiversity loss in non-renewable areas, and ecological decline all become clear dangers to human survival. According to Field & Field in 2002, “What once were restricted environmental harms, simply repaired, have now acquired wide implications that may very well turn out to be permanent.”

Globally, there is a need to study, evaluate, and put into practice accounting reporting for raw materials, energy consumption, and use of natural resources that has been slowly destroying the environment. International law has also been developed as a result of the need for governments to protect the environment and the negative consequences that industrial and human activities have on biodiversity. These regulatory environmental standards, however, just mandate the voluntary disclosure of environmental data including industrial emissions, degradations, wastages, and any other activities that have a negative impact on the environment in financial statements. The Niger Delta’s significant ecological impact on the area’s oil and gas producing environment in Nigeria has led to political unrest in the area. According to Owolabi (2007:63), the political unrest in the Niger Delta cannot be solved by wishing away environmental issues from the country’s oil and gas sector planning, management, and decision-making. “Costs and benefits need to be accurately ascribed, a clear contrast made between the creation of income and the drawing down of capital assets through resource depletion or deterioration,” he concludes in regards to environmental costs.

Notable studies in environmental accounting include the Ontario Hydro Full Cost Accounting (1993) and the AT & T Green Accounting of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (1993). Additionally, commercial organizations have been required to carefully consider and take action on their capital projects and investments as a result of the Kyoto Protocol’s (December 1997) penalties and industrial emissions of green substances (carbon dioxide, methane, and hydro fluorocarbons).

In light of growing environmental consciousness and the fact that the production of the oil and gas sectors has a considerable environmental impact, the study explores environmental accounting practices and financial reporting in the oil and gas business.

 

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.

 

ACCOUNTING INFORMATION AS A BASIS FOR MANAGERIAL DECISION-MAKING

INTRODUCTION

The part of a business known as management is responsible for formulating policies, creating programs, establishing standards, applying to financial, physical, and human resources, maintaining plant and equipment, and keeping supervisory, labor, and administrative forces operating at peak efficiency.
In a word, management entails establishing objectives and managing personnel and other resources toward the achievement of business objectives.
Management is tasked with selecting each component of an organization in order to carry out its inherent roles and obligations. For instance, the management must choose from a list of proposed capital expenditures those that offer the most promising profit opportunities.

Making decisions is such a fundamental part of management that it is impossible to function without it.

It is an ongoing process that affects every aspect of organizational operations. Planning, organizing, actuating, staffing, directing, and controlling all require decision-making.
However, it should be noted that all decisions require the input of information. The choice will then be made in consideration of the information at hand. Therefore, it is crucial that this information be of high quality and be sufficient, relevant, and accurate. Only sound and accurate information, whether quantitative or non-quantitative and accounting- or non-accounting-related, can support sound decisions.

But each organization’s accounting information system is made up of people, equipment, protocols, checks, document files, and reports. Their primary goal is to give operating and management staff information that will help them carry out an organization’s mission effectively and efficiently.

For many purposes, accounting information has always been relevant. It gives management access to financial data for planning and overseeing business operations. However, management needs accounting data to be as accurate as possible in order to assess and manage business operations. Many accountants have focused more on creating traditional financial accounting presentations than they have on creating management accounting tools.

Many decisions are influenced by accounting information, but little is understood about how this effect manifests itself in different decision-making categories. As a result, decision-making should be based on more information management rather than on the structure of traditional accounting presentation.
This study looks at the importance and effect of accounting information provided by internal accountants on sound management decisions since it has always been the goal of internal accounting to provide relevant information for management.