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Rosen Kolev
ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTING APPROACH FOR ELECTRICITY COMPENSATIONS TO INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES
Summary:
The growing prices of the main production resources have led to a common European policy in support of economic subjects. The established mechanisms also concern the electricity consumed by non-domestic end users. The industrial sector in Bulgaria is energy-intensive and the accounting for the electricity costs and the compensations for their high prices has become increasingly relevant because of the direct influence on the cost price and sale price of the provided services and the produced goods. The development of an alternative accounting approach for the compensations to industrial enterprises facilitates making operative, strategic, and tactical decisions concerning their activity.
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Velichko Adamov
Anatomy of capital provision of investments
Summary:
Capital provision of investments requires serious financial revision of the balance sheet and the statement of income. In this respect, what is justified in this article is the need for structuring and designing a financial statement of the companies, which gives the major indicators, necessary for efficient financial provision and management of investments. A critical analysis of the minimal financial balance has been made and the need for using actual financial equilibrium has been proved. In this way, sound company management is impossible without the constant provision of long-term capital for financing a part of short-term investments.
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Rosen Kolev
INDUSTRY 4.0 AND KAIZEN COSTING 4.0 – OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF COST MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS TOWARDS CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Summary:
The importance of management accounting and cost management systems for industrial enterprises is constantly growing. In the conditions of the fourth industrial revolution, management systems of economic agents need to adapt to the new economic environment. This article is an attempt to present the influence of Industry 4.0 on a specific cost management system - Kaizen costing. Additionally, it presents the possibilities for the application of Industry 4.0 and Kaizen costing in the circular economy, which has become the main economic perspective for the EU countries.
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Rayna Petrova
THE COMPETENCE-BASED APPROACH THROUGH THE PRISM OF ACADEMIC TRAINING IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Summary:
Management accountants’ competences are evolving accor¬ding to the changing socio-economic reality. The practical application of the competence-based approach in this field is a response to the change of attitudes from subject-oriented to competence-oriented education.
The aim of this article is to propose a competence-based learning model for students in management accounting. The application of the developed competence model in the educational process will contribute both to the development of competences, knowledge, skills, values, ethics and attitudes and the realization of future management accountants.
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Mariya Pavlova, Rayna Petrova
THE EMERGING CHANGES
IN THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION AND THE ACCONTING PRACTICE UNDER THE INFLUENCE
OF TECHNOLOGY
Summary:
The implementation of new technologies in accounting brings many benefits for the future, but also carries many risks. In the current digital era, the adequate practical application of technologies in accounting can become a strategic advantage for companies. In relation to the digitalisation and the upcoming organizational changes, both in the sphere of accounting and in the companies themselves, accounting specialists are a key factor for success. This study gives a thorough overview and analysis of specialised literature in this area and a number of empirical studies. The results show that the literature mainly focuses on certain technologies, while other are actually used in practice. Differences have been identified between the accounting practices of the USA and the European countries. The authors outline three directions in which technologies help accounting teams to transition to modern accounting and effectively perform their tasks in the digital world. The conclusion is that today, specialised skills and strategic thinking of accounting specialists are particularly important and in the near future, they will not be entirely displaced by technologies.
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N. Grozeva
Intangible Assets and Financial Disclosure Quality
Summary:
The topicality of this article is related to the current development of the economy, which is increasingly dominated by knowledge and innovation.
The article aims to reveal some aspects that are crucial for the quality of the financial reporting of intangible assets, the adherence to which would greatly facilitate the communication between participants in international markets.
The intangible assets reported in the financial statements of software companies are subject to this research.
The research hypothesis is that the utility of information about inter-nally created intangible assets would increase if it were included in the finan-cial statements of software companies.
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Mihail Dochev, Galina Chipriyanova
Accounting with regardto the Information Systems in Higher Schools
Summary:
Information is one of the major resources related to consolidating the competitive position of higher schools in a market oriented economy. Accurate and reliable information is mainly ensured by accounting. It is associated with the mechanism of current, regular, reliable and accurate recording, and processing and summarising data, thus providing a realistic perspective for the accounting of the training and education process and the performance of centres and sections in a higher school, as well as a solid basis for their comprehensive analysis. Computer-based accounting information systems, respectively, integrated accounting information systems (being information systems of the highest class) are essential to the efficient management of higher schools and hence, their success on the education market.
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I. Dimitrova, Y. Velcheva
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING IN AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES – THE BUDGETING FUNCTION
Summary:
The significance of the information created through management accounting and its limited use in the management of agricultural enterprises are the main motives for writing this article. We defend the thesis that if budgeting were implemented in agricultural enterprises, this would lead to more efficient management. The purpose of the paper is – on the basis of presenting the relationship between management and accounting – to outline the capacity of the planning and budgeting system for setting management objectives and parameters which acquire various quantitative and qualitative dimensions; this shall be achieved through managerial decisions. We propose a conceptual model of the planning and budgeting system at the agricultural enterprise which shall reflect its specific characteristics and create information for its future development; forecast its financial state, the results of the activity, the cash flows, the changes in the assets and the capital.
