Management accounting of the organization’s Production costs: russian Experience

The paper discusses the Russian features of management accounting of production costs in medium and small enterprises, which being properly organized and functioning, provide an opportunity to use information the performance improving of the organization. Its multi-variance, enshrined in domestic accounting standards, involves the use of various approaches to the formation of costs, in particular, the normative method, which is the subject of this study. Based on the results of the work, as an optimization measure for material-intensive industries, the authors propose to use material costs as a basis for distributing indirect costs and ones for auxiliary production instead of the major employees’ wages. The methodology is based on a systematic and dialectical approach, observation, systematization, analysis, grouping, classification and generalization of data; as well as on such accounting tools as costing and double entry. The specific experience in management cost accounting using the example of an enterprise producing paving tiles will give an opportunity to develop a practical base of works out in determining the stages of costing and the features of the costs specifications of the main and auxiliary production based on the facts of economic life. 

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