This article deals with the problem of reorganization of the enterprises in the steel industry in Romania, starting from the general principles identified by experts. The orientation of these principles finally leads to the transformation of the vertical organization manner into one of a...

The cost information system plays an important role in every organization within the decision-making process. An important task of management is to ensure the control over operations, processes, activity sectors, and not ultimately on costs. Although in reaching the goals of an organization...

The rapid assessment methods are applied in a very similar way in the business area: they say a certain rule and then shows a series of circumstances (limitations) that may influence the outcome of the assess or can even make rule inapplicable. In other words, “rules are made to be broken”....

Due to its relative contribution and growing impact in the economy, tourism can play an important role in advancing the universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the application of bioeconomy principles, when governed with social responsibility, following sector specific...

The purpose of this article is to capture the evolution of applying cost drivers in calculating costs since their initial occurrence until the present times. There are different conceptual approaches of cost drivers, and new insights from applying cost modeling techniques from the Activity-Based...

This article presents a way of organizing the management accounting and cost calculation through the Target Costing method. There are treated the development stages of Target Costing method, and the role of the management accountant in the development and implementation of this method. The...

The article presents the general frame of the normalization of managerial accounting on a national level, following an incursion in its international normalization. The objectives of the normalization of managerial accounting in Romania are presented into detail, from the authors’ point of...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the Activity- Based Costing (ABC) and Activity-Based Management (ABM) system and techniques to sustain them as a permanent and repeatable production reporting system, not just for one-off analysis. A comparison is made between ABC/ABM modeling software...

This article describes the principles of Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management. By its analysis it has been deduced that ABC method becomes the main instrument of providing information for the ABM method. So, the ABM method becomes an important instrument for obtaining...