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Is accounting and finance a direct and Productive Department or Indirect Department of any Manufacturing Firm?

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Question added by Faisal Rasheed , Senior Accountant , Hotel Crown City
Date Posted: 2013/09/24
Syed Hammad ACA
by Syed Hammad ACA , Head of Finance

Its productive department . Support provided on following issues make finance department an integral and productive department without which business can not make rational decision. 

 

  1. Inventory management
  2. working capital management
  3. production losses
  4. Analysis on actual cost comparing with standards covering following issue :
    1. Material 
    2. Labour
    3. Fixed Overheads
    4. Variable Overheads
  5. Product costing , which help to determine pricing
  6. market segment analysis , with cost effectiveness
  7. concept of opportunity cost in various decisions

 

paul lteif
by paul lteif , Regional Financial Analyst-ME & Balkan Zone , Schneider Electric

indirect

Faisal Rasheed
by Faisal Rasheed , Senior Accountant , Hotel Crown City

it mean, that we support others to do thier jobs effeciently???? 

Muhammad Nisar Khan
by Muhammad Nisar Khan , Accountant , Haddan Project Management Est.

Yes both of them are direct and productive departments because without financing you cannot do any manufacturing and as they say "accounting is the language of business" means if accounting is not there in any type of business, you won't know where you started and where you are now?.

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