Role of Accounting Information in Strategic Decision Making in Manufacturing Industries in Bangladesh

Md. Hafij Ullah

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Md. Hafij Ullah

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accounting information, strategic decision, manufacturing industries, bangladesh

Abstract

Accounting information is a part and parcel of today's life which is necessary to understand the accurate financial situation of the organization and used as the basis of making strategic decisions. Since strategic decisions have long-term effect on the business and therefore it is important to analyze accounting information for making long-term strategic decisions. The present study is an endeavor to evaluate the usage of accounting information by the decision makers in practices in strategic decision areas. Five strategic decision areas such as basic strategic decision, manufac-turing decision, human resource decision, long term investment decision and marketing decision were considered for the study. The results of the study prove that there is significant relationship between accounting information and strategic decisions and strategic decisions in all the selected areas significantly depend on accounting information and it is also observed from the analysis of the opinion of the respondents that 44.44% of the respondents always use accounting information in making strategic decision in manufacturing industries in Bangladesh.

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Role of Accounting Information in Strategic Decision Making in Manufacturing Industries in Bangladesh. (2014). Global Journal of Management and Business Research, 14(D1), 9-23. https://journalofbusiness.org/index.php/GJMBR/article/view/1211

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