Abstract:
The purpose of the independent study was to investigate operational problems and factors relating to operational problems in managerial accounting of the chief accountants in Bang Pa-in Industrial Estate, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya. The data were collected from 83 chief accountants/accounting managers
through the application of questionnaire, and were analyzed using Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation,
Independent Samples t-test and One-way ANOVA.
The study showed that overall operational problems in managerial accounting of the chief accountants were at a low level. When each aspect was inspected, it was found that the most frequently found operational problems were as follows: the change in economic condition, no cooperation from related
internal departments in sending data, insufficient personnel for performing the managerial accounting, the
delay in receiving the accounting data, the lack of data connection of accounting information system and
other related systems.
The results of hypothesis testing indicated that the chief accountants/accounting managers with different gender, age, work experience affected different problems in managerial accounting, and different registered capital of the organization affected different problems in managerial accounting. Different
organization structure, accounting system, policy and objective of the organization affected different
problems in managerial accounting at 0.05 level of significance.