Effectiveness and impact of management accounting in hospitals: Evaluation of the effectiveness of cost accounting and revenue budgeting

Syed Raziuddin Ahmad, Imran Ahmad Khan

Article ID: 4159
Vol 8, Issue 5, 2024

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Abstract


The goal of this research is to determine whether hospital financial performance is impacted by particular management accounting techniques, such as departmental revenue budgeting, specific costing, and departmental costing. We analyzed several sets of performance indicators for 146 hospitals whose management accounting adoption status is available. An outlier test was used to determine which data were outliers at the 0.1% significance level, and the results were then eliminated in order to see if any extremely outlier values (hospitals) were present for each indicator. To determine whether there were any noteworthy variations in the average values of the several performance measures, we employed a t-test (two-tailed probability). The results suggest that departmental revenue budgeting and departmental and specific costing improve hospital financial performance.


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management accounting; costing; financial performance

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