The possibility of adopting strategic management accounting techniques to increase competitiveness Iraqi economic units in light of the variables of the contemporary business environment.

Abstract

The accession of countries to the World Trade Agreement and the openness of markets to each other without restrictions led to the emergence of the philosophy of "a world without borders and business units without countries", which required adapting the modern business environment to that philosophy, which is considered as objectives for the activities of the units that must be implemented in order to achieve competition. The objective of the units has changed from making profit to meeting the desires of customers, which is what imposed a new role for management accounting as a field of knowledge renewed in it visions of competitiveness between units. Because of the increasing needs for information in light of environmental changes , Effective techniques appeared in the hands of departments that reflect the ability of (SMA) to analyze strategies to control the optimal use of resources. The research aimed to show performance improvement techniques and their importance in providing an information framework for a number of targeted techniques such as benchmarking, cost specifications, continuous improvement, and others. The research reached to invite business units in the Iraqi environment to use techniques as a work method to provide information to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of decision-making, and to use the holistic approach to measure the impact of strategic choices on performance.