M11 - Production ManagementReturn

Material Flow Cost Accounting (hereinafter MFCA) belongs to very important methods of Environmental Cost Accounting (and thus also of Environmental Management Accounting). It is a basic tool of management approach referred to as flow management, whose aim is to manage mainly production processes with regard to material, energy and information flows so that production process runs efficiently and in conformity with the set targets. The paper focuses on the case study of MFCA in the ceramic manufacturing plant of the company Lasselsberger. The paper characterizes MFCA as a tool for the management of material flows and points out the significance of MFCA information for the optimization of production processes.