Could the Suitability of the Existing Accounting System be Argued?

Franko Milost and Ziga Cepar
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Franko Milost: University of Primorska, Slovenia
Ziga Cepar: University of Primorska, Slovenia

Management, 2018, vol. 13, issue 3, 213-225

Abstract: Accounting is a process of recording and studying financial data related to company’s operations. Its aims are above all to provide information about the events in company business life in an agreed language comprehensible to accounting information users and to provide information which is vital to business decision making. If we consider the above mentioned aims, we can establish that it is not easy to reach them. Accounting is not an exact science, which means that approximations or planned amounts are very often used as its tool. In addition, as the future is uncertain, we cannot determine the exact value an asset is about to achieve when converted into a monetary form, neither can we define the amount which is to be required to discharge a certain liability. And so we can ask ourselves if the existing accounting solutions enable us to create suitable accounting information. Our paper deals with the problem of the existing accounting system’s suitability. Four questions are investigated, namely the question of accounting solutions consistency, reality of financial statements, capability of creating accounting information which provides an optimal management of the elements of the business process and accounting solutions’ objectivity.

Keywords: classical accounting approach; consistency of accounting solutions; objectivity of accounting solutions; reality of financial statements; business decisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.26493/1854-4231.13.213-225

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