Accounting and various aspects of finance
mohammad namazi; Arezoo Mosallanejad
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to design an accounting model for integrated water management through a combined exploratory method. In the qualitative part, using the Meta-Synthesis method, after searching in internal and external databases in the period 1980-2020, 147 studies were found, which after the ...
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The purpose of this study is to design an accounting model for integrated water management through a combined exploratory method. In the qualitative part, using the Meta-Synthesis method, after searching in internal and external databases in the period 1980-2020, 147 studies were found, which after the meta- synthesis method, 33 particular studies which have a direct relationship with water accounting and management have been chosen. In the quantitative part, in order to assess the validity of the proposed model, using a questionnaire, the statistical population was active accountants in related industries in the field of water. Finally, using Cohen's sampling method, the opinions of 136 experts were received and analyzed using One Sample T-Test., In order to determine the factor loading of the indicators of each component, confirmatory factor analysis was used and the research hypotheses were tested. The results showed that the water management accounting model in Iran using Phenomenology method and balanced scorecard method includes 6 prospective: Finance, customer, internal processes, growth and learning, reputation and sustainability. The components of the model include 20 items: cost, efficiency, sales, expenses, water quality, water quantity, human capital, and so on and managers and in total 52 indicators constitute the water management accounting model.
mohammad Namazi; M Azimi Bidgoli
Volume 9, Issue 35 , October 2012, , Pages 1-21
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The purpose of this study, at first, is to identify the organizations' key performance evaluation measures, which are related to each Balanced Scorecard (BSC) perspectives of the companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) that are classified by the type of activity and on the basis of the industry ...
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The purpose of this study, at first, is to identify the organizations' key performance evaluation measures, which are related to each Balanced Scorecard (BSC) perspectives of the companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) that are classified by the type of activity and on the basis of the industry groups in 2008. After determination, identified measures are ranked by the participants based on the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique. At last, among the obtained ranks, after applying AHP and before the employment of this technique, a comparison is attempted to investigate the significance of the differences between the two types of ranking.By utilizing interviews and providing questionnaires, data related to 78 companies was collected. Friedman Test and t-test were administered in this study.The measures utilized in this research by companies listed in the TSE, was exerted to evaluate the performance of the organizations and managers, within the four perspectives of the BSC. The hypotheses testing results indicated that there are significant differences between two types of rankings (before and after using AHP) in the organizations.Moreover, it was revealed that almost none of the examined TSE companies did apply the unique measures of the BSC in their performance evaluation process
Sh. Khajavi; M. Sayrani; A. Allahyari
Volume 8, Issue 30 , July 2010, , Pages 151-177
Abstract
This study aims at investigating the feasibility of the application of "Balanced Scorecard", in performance measurement of Shiraz hospitals. Balanced Scorecard is one of the management accounting techniques which was first introduced by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in 1992. This technique organized ...
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This study aims at investigating the feasibility of the application of "Balanced Scorecard", in performance measurement of Shiraz hospitals. Balanced Scorecard is one of the management accounting techniques which was first introduced by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in 1992. This technique organized in four distinct prospective: financial, customer, internal processes and learning and growth. Four prospective related to balanced scorecard were analyzed based on one main hypothesis and four subsidiaries. The gained results of Statistical analysis showed that indicating in all prospective of Balanced Scorecard in Shiraz hospitals is possible, but yet pre required and needed thought to implementing this technique in Shiraz hospitals is not done well. We found out through more surveys that customer prospective was the most noticeable prospective and internal processes, financial and learning and growth prospective were ranked respectively.
