December 26, 2012

Comparing Balanced Scorecard(BSC) with Traditional Performance Measurement

Traditional Performance Measurement Systems Traditional Performance measurement system tracks only the financial performance of the organization relating to profit earned from selling to the capital required. They focus solely on financial measures based on internal accounting reports such as profitability, revenue, cash flows, earnings per share (EPS), return on assets (ROA),economic value added, etc. These measures are known as lag indicators as they only reflect the past data and represent historical performance (Kaplan...
Posted by Vaishak V. Suvarna on Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Comparing Strategic Management Accounting with Traditional Management Accounting

“Strategy is the direction in which the organization plans to move to attain its long-term goal” (Anthony & Govindarajan, 2007). Strategy is concerned with the long-term direction of the business organization, the scope of its operational activities, the matching of operational activities to its resource capabilities and its competitive environment, giving consideration its stakeholders values and expectations (Porter, 1996 ; Anthony & Govindarajan, 2007). Traditional Management Accounting has tended to concentrate on the tactical...
Posted by Vaishak V. Suvarna on Wednesday, December 26, 2012