INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
JUNE 2013
VOL 5, NO 2
The Role of Financial Analysis Ratio in Evaluating Performance
(Case Study: National Chlorine industry)
Abdel- Rahman kh. El- Dalabeeh
Accounting Department, Faculty of Finance and Business Administration, AL al-bayt University,
Mafraq, Jordan
Abstract
This study aimed to identify the role of the management accountant in evaluating the companies’ performance through using the financial analysis methods in evaluating the performance of the National Chlorine industries co.ltd. The analytical approach, which is based on the analysis of the financial statements for five years except 2003 , was adopted in this study and the Horizontal Analysis ,Vertical Analysis and Financial Ratios, which were the most common between 2003-2008, were applied. The study concluded that having an administrator accountant to analyze the financial statements of the National Chlorine industries co.ltd leads to identify and explain the deviations and the undesired extreme results.
And through training the employees, it is possible to use other methods to analyze the deviations that help in evaluating the company through identifying the causes for these deviations. The researcher recommended establishing an independent department for the management accounting in the company to evaluate its performance through analyzing the deviations and treat them and to provide qualified employees; scientifically and practically to do the work of the company.
Keywords: Role ; Financial Analysis Ratio ; Evaluating Performance ; National Chlorine industry 1. Introduction:
The management accounting is considered one of the most important components of the system of the administrative information in the company by providing the economic and financial information and collecting information taken from other systems of information in the company so it looks as accounting for
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