A study to determine important barriers in using managerial accounting


Rahmatollah Mohammadipour, Sohaila Mahdavi, Mohammad Hossein Bakhsh and Farshad Sabzalipour


Managerial accounting plays an important role for making prompt and efficient decisions to reduce troubles in the market. However, there are many circumstances where management team cannot make appropriate, fast and reliable managerial decisions. In this paper, we present a survey in cement industry and look to find out important factors as major barriers of managerial accounting implementation. The proposed model of this paper designs and distributes questionnaire among management teams who work for cement industry in Iran. The results of the survey indicate that lack of familiarity of managers with managerial accounting techniques, existence of unprofessional people in financial and accounting affairs and lack of having globally acceptable standards are major barriers in this industry for implementation of managerial accounting skills. However, our survey does not find any relationship between market turbulence and efficiency and implementation of managerial accounting skills.


DOI: j.msl.2012.10.003

Keywords: Cement industry ,Managerial accounting ,Efficiency ,Profitability

How to cite this paper:

Mohammadipour, R., Mahdavi, S., Bakhsh, M & Sabzalipour, F. (2012). A study to determine important barriers in using managerial accounting.Management Science Letters, 2(8), 2827-2832.


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