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An Academic Paper
Presented to
Mr. Amir Auditor
UNIVERSITY OF PERPETUAL HELP SYSTEM DALTA
Las Piñas City
In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Course of
Accounting Research
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
information is the language of business as it is the basic tool for recording, reporting
and evaluating economic events and transactions that affect business enterprises.
capital expenditure and other obligations to sale revenue and owners ‘equity. It
provides financial information about ones business to the internal and external users,
end, with the ending being the decision that is helped by the availability of
machine’ that can help to evaluate how objectives might be achieved by quantifying
the financial impact of each alternative available to the decision. Accounting and
financial information are among the most important information widely used in the
tool for recording, reporting and evaluating economic events and transactions that
interpersonal, in that case, managerial work concerns tend to remain a huge part of
managing decisions. Strategic decisions, when the decision maker aims for long
periods of time, allocates all or part of the company's core assets to achieve that goal;
such decisions are usually adopted at top management. The aim of this study is to
find the roles to link accounting information and management decisions, in order to
system to the management, which uses it primarily to accomplish three (3) broad
II. To plan the operations of the organization in both the short and long run.
Accounting, being a special information system, should reveal the real picture of
approaches for revenue and profit distribution, and scope of consumption and
development of information system in both the public and private sectors. (Elpez
need to be consider the relative importance of any transaction, which lessens the
the data collecting, processing and utilization and done through computer, which
makes data processing easy and accounting information widened and deepened,
making especially knowing that resources are alternatively scarce and limited (Wada,
relevant to the decision and to the decision makers. Accounting systems provides
check for the validity through the process of auditing and accountability. Effective
information system. From tangible or intangible files, records that are damaged, lost
accounting files is more complex than before. The system must be able to handle
and communicate all the financial movements for the complex structure made up of
line ministries, spending agencies, regional and local governments as well as other
The purpose of this study is to find the roles to link accounting information and
the study are to identify the frequency of using accounting information in decision
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
In this section we will discuss about (1) Relevance, (2) Faithful representation,
The international accounting standard board for the preparation and presentation
decision by helping users to form predictions about the outcomes of past, present,
and future events or to confirm or correct expectations,” and goes on to define event
and outcome (Holthausen & Watts, 2002). Faithful representation general purpose
useful, financial information must not only be relevant, it must also represent
representation of its legal form only (Framework adopted by the IASB, 2001). A
similar information about other entities and with similar information about the same
entity for another period or another date. Comparability enables users to identify and
understand similarities in, and differences among, items. Verifiability helps to assure
observers could reach consensus, although not necessarily complete agreement, that
complex and cannot be made easy to understand, to exclude such information would
make financial reports incomplete and potentially misleading. Financial reports are
prepared for users who have a reasonable knowledge of business and economic
activities and who review and analyses the information with diligence. (IASB,
Conc ept ual F ram ework f or Financial Reporti ng 2010 appr oved by the I AS B
decisions and inform the reader on how accounting information influences on the
economic, validity, speed and on time concepts. The major source of data to this
a. Number of Employees
a. Relevance
b. Faithful Representation
c. Comparability
d. Understandability
e. Verifiability
f. Timeliness
presenting accounting information and its unique role as aid in decision making by
the management. The purpose of this study therefore includes the following:
a. Number of employees
terms of:
a. Relevance
b. Faithful Representation
c. Comparability
d. Understandability
e. Verifiability
f. Timeliness
HYPOTHESIS
For the purpose of analyzing data, the following hypothesis will be tested. Commented [2]: include this:
SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY Commented [4]: Who are your respondents?
sampling; regardless of their position, age, and gender. This study considers every
aspect of the company’s demographic profile that has an effect to the assessment of
and years of existence. The conduct of the study is restricted on the availability of
real data provided by the respondents in the questionnaires. This study employs a
questionnaire-based survey for the data collection and independent t-test (T-test) as
its tool for data analysis. The study performed preliminary analysis and T-test. In the
This study will be conducted with limited amount of financial resources and
time framework.
how they can improve decision making procedure of their companies for an effective
performance.
Management Staff- This research may equips the management and staff of the
The University- This research can benefit to this study, considerate the information
and knowledge emplaced in this research and provide facts and data for the future
studies.
Future Researchers- This research may enable students who wants to study this
course in the future to make use or get an idea of this work both in there academics
Researches- The findings of the study will be beneficial to the researchers to enrich
DEFINITION OF TERMS Commented [5]: Provide the operational definition other than
that.
financial information for decision –making of other parties and facility management.
numbers.
the same facts and assumptions. Verifiability helps to assure users that information
information to users quickly enough for them to take action. Timeliness means
T-test-The t test compares two averages (means) and tells you if they are different
from each other. The t test also tells you how significant the differences are; In other
words it lets you know if those differences could have happened by chance.
CHAPTER 2
making any decisions. Strategic decisions have an extended effect on the business
their tasks more clearly and reduces uncertainty before making their decisions.
Accounting is sometimes related to as a means to an end, with the ending being the
systems can help in decision making providing information needed to make the
decision and to the decision maker. Effective and efficient accounting information
one type of information recognized as a ‘learning machine’ that can evaluate how
objectives can be achieved by analyzing the financial impact of each choice available
to the decision. Accounting and financial information are two of the most important
the information which managers always use in short term strategic decisions and
they may have most application among different variables effective in decision-
In the 21st century, the development of IT has important implications for the
Spraakman, 2006). The AISs and accounting applications (i.e. concept, scope and
operation), such as, preparing financial statements and tax statements, planning,
consultancy and auditing, have changed (Surmen and Dastan, 2007), and happen to
be different from traditional accounting. The traditional AIS can only generate
information, which make the use objects become narrow (Salehi et al., 2010). Thus,
Data quality is a crucial issue for most organizations and local governments are not
quality information for decision makers and accountability mechanisms Under the
Financial Management and accountability Act 1997 (FMA Act) and the Common
wealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 agencies and other federal government
whether the entity's financial statements have been presented fairly in accordance
(Barrett, 2004).
The Quality characteristics are the attributes that make the information provided in
for financial reporting, the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) in the United
information users. For financial information to serve its intended objective, it should
(Stein, 2000). Suppliers are interested in information that not only helps them to
decide whether to sell to the entity, but also assess the likelihood that the amount
owing to them will be paid when due. Employees are interested in information that
enables them assess their employment opportunities, retirement and other benefits.
Governments and their agencies are interested in not only the allocation of resources
but also activities of the entity. The public is interested in information that is useful
in assessing trends and recent developments in the entity prosperity and the range of
its activities that may affect their welfare. Management will be interested in analysis
of revenues and expenses and the cost consequences of a particular course of action
strategies.
2017)
Synthesis
become a tool to produce accurate, reliable and timely information through the
development of information system (Elpez and Fink, 2006) in both the public and
private sectors. The presence of IT has radically transformed the manner in which
business is conducted across the world and alerted us to the many challenges that lay
will help the users to perform all the tasks efficiently and effectively. With the use
processes and workflows by automating the accounting and financial data, which is
believed may increase the performance of the tasks performed. Strategic decisions
are among the most distinctive decisions in an organization and these are used for
determining the goals and direction for long-term company development. Basically
long-term and annual business plans and the organizational structure. Anything that
is linked to the future of the company. A wrong strategic decision have far-reaching,
negative effects on the company, which in turn places a lot of responsibility on the
shoulders of the strategic decision maker in this study, five strategic decision making
can’t know what is going on with the production cost and equipment cost.
(Deshmukh, 2006)
There is no proof that the Conduct a survey for This paper has proven
information has a role for to prove that the quality for managerial decisions
a company. information has a highly accountin g information Commented [7]: Where is your Gap Analysis?
management decisions.
Gap Analysis
CHAPTER 3
The descriptive research method is used to observe and gathering the information
that needed for the study. The study will utilize the descriptive research
describes a certain present condition of the study consisted of two theoretical and
applied aspects, the theoretical one deals with scientific thoughts and views related
approach in presenting the data, and analytical approach in analysis of the results of
the collection and analysis of data along with testing the hypothesis.
The researchers will use an already prepared survey questionnaire to gather data
for the extent of the accounting information that are practiced by selected IT
industries. The draft of the survey questionnaire will be the content validated by
faculty researchers and accounting faculty members. The first section shows
variables related to demographic for the study sample through five paragraphs
of writers and researchers in the subject matter for obtaining raw data that is
necessary to complete the practical aspect of the study. The type of form and manner
that serves the objectives and hypotheses of the study in addition to data collection
2. The researchers will give out questionnaires to the chosen respondents and
3. After receiving the research materials the researches began to tabulate the
4. The information that has been gathered was organized into the tabular form
was subjected to statics treatment before they were analysed and interpreted. Commented [9]: Include the discussion of descriptive
Data Analysis
population means of two independent groups are the same. The researcher begins by
selecting a sample of observations and estimates the population mean of each group
from the sample means. The researcher then compares these two sample means via
the formula
Where 1 is the sample mean of group 1, 2 is the sample mean of group 2, s2p is
the pooled estimate of variance (formula given in the example problem), n1 is the
sample size of group 1, and n2 is the sample size of group 2. This t-test value can
then be used to determine the likelihood that any difference between the two samples
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