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The Concept of Responsibility Accounting

“When people feel accountable and included, it is more fun.” – Alan Mulally
ResponsibilityAccounting
Maybe known as decentralization of responsibility
center so that desired control can be ensured and
thereby the goal of the organization can be attained.

Responsibility Accounting
involves the following.
1. Entire organization is divided into small
responsibility centers.
2. In terms of Revenue and cost, the
What does it mean to be responsibility of each cost centers is
accountable? fixed.
3. In terms of its predetermined target,
To be accountable means to be responsible or the performance of each responsibility
answerable to someone for something. It involves
taking responsibility for your own actions and being
center is measured
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Objectives of
Responsibility 1. Overall organizational goals are broken
down into small goals, each of the small
Accounting goal is meant for better achievement of
responsibility center.

2. With the attached responsibility, each


The main and crucial objective is to support responsibility center is tied up and there is
all the centers within the company and help adequate authority so that responsibility
them with costing and planning. can be discharged
The accounting we referred to above relates 3. At the end of a period, evaluation is done of the
to the preparation of annual or monthly performance of its responsibility center and
budget which is allocated or comparison of the performance is done with the
designed for any particular center. predetermined targets.

4. Thorough study is made of the achievement which


are above or below target and remedial measures
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ROI

• ROI= operating income/operating asset (investment)


Sales
-Total expense
Operating income

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Residual income

Sales
- Total expense
Operating income
-Imputed interest
Residual income

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Sample of RI and ROI
Table 1.1 Table 1.2
Alaskan Marine Service AMC kitchikan Division
Corporation Alternative Performance Measures
Kitchikan Division
Basic Data for Performance ROI (a/b) RI
Evaluation AOA(a) P100,000 P100,000

Ave Operating Asset……P100,000 NOI(b) P20,000 P20,000


Net Operating Income…..P20,000 20%
Minimum Required rate of return.. MRR 15% - 15,000
15%
RI P3,000

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Table 1.2 Table 1.3
Alaskan Marine Service Corporation Alaskan Marine Service Corporation
Kitchikan Division Kitchikan Division
Using Performance measures using RI Using ROI

Present New Overall Present New Overall


Project Project
AOA P100,000 P25,000 P125,000 AOA(a) P100,00 P24,000 P125,00
0 0
NOI P20,000 P4,500 P24,500
MRR 15% P15,000 P3,750 P18,750 NOI(b) P20,000 P4,500 P24,500

RI P5,000 P750 P5750 ROI, b/a 20% 18% 19.6%

The AMC adds new project which


purchase them a machine that
would cost P25,000 that would
expect them to generate of
income P4,500
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ThankYou
Rap Novem J. Decir

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