Providing a model for sense making of management accounting information to managers

Management accounting information can provide essential support for managers’ decision making and make these decisions more effective and efficient. Management accounting information performs an enabling function as it provides a fundamental input to organizational management sensemaking. This research focuses on providing a model for sensemaking of management accounting information to managers by using grounded theory and especially focuses on interactions between users and providers of management accounting information. The main question in this research is that “Despite the many advantages, why management accounting information is not used in an effective manner by Iranian managers, or even some companies don’t have management accounting department?” In this regard, unstructured interviews were conducted with 20 experts, including managers, management accountants, and experts, who are both sides of providers and users of information. Some of the most important strategies for sensmaking of management accounting information to managers are: providing necessary training for management accountants and managers to enhance the expertise and knowledge of management accountants as well as the familiarity of managers with the capabilities and applications of management accounting and the role of institutions and active management accounting associations in this field as well as improving the quality of management accounting reports by acquiring the skills required by management accountants.