Up to date the government has made efforts to solve various disputes and problems in apartment management through enacting and revising relevant laws and regulations. However, because of loopholes in the laws, insufficient information about regulation...
Up to date the government has made efforts to solve various disputes and problems in apartment management through enacting and revising relevant laws and regulations. However, because of loopholes in the laws, insufficient information about regulations and residents' lack of sense of community, etc. many problems are still involved in the system and operation of apartment management.
Among these problems in apartment management, what residents are most sensitive to and interested in is how to calculate common management expenses. The calculation of common management expenses must be efficient and transparent, and the division of common administrative expenses must guarantee rationality and equality. Such requirements are directly connected to accounting in apartment management.
Thus the present study tried to enhance the efficiency of apartment management by deriving problems from a number of cases of apartment accounting management system and proposing a model of administrative expense statement reflecting the derived problems.
Apartment residents' hottest interest in apartment management is how common administrative expenses are divided among the dwellers in calculating administrative expenses. The division of common cost should be made in a way of inducing the dwellers to admit their payment of management expenses positively and to use public facilities more efficiently. For this purpose, it is necessary to examine practical and legal criteria for the division of management expenses.
In the review of accounting practices, we derived problems as follows through analyzing cases of accounting management system and apartment administrative expense statements. In addition, we proposed solutions for the problems and a model of administrative expense statement.
According to the result of analyzing problems in apartment accounting management system using a software provided by a statement printing company, accounting management system has been programmed for effective use in dividing administrative expenses, and data can be entered in and printed out as well as be sent and received through the Internet. However, connection among accounting management systems has not been established properly yet. Thus it is necessary to develop systematic software for simultaneous operation of related systems when data are put it.
On the other hand, according to the result of analyzing the statements of apartments administrative expenses for apartments of different heating method (individual heating, central heating and local heating), significant differences were observed in the form of levying, the method of calculation, standards for division, etc. In addition, because the grounds of calculation and details are not fully explained, it is hard to compare them among apartments and resident cannot help but doubting whether administrative expenses are appropriate.
These problems are largely caused by the lack of standard statement of administrative expenses, which is the base of accounting management. Standard statement of administrative expenses will make a great contribution to the standardization of apartment accounting system, improve the efficiency of management, and provide apartment dwellers with reliable accounting information. Thus this study concentrated on standardizing the statement of administrative expenses for apartment accounting management system, and proposed a standard model.
Effects expected from the standardization of apartment accounting system and the standardization of the statement of management expenses are as follows.
First, high-quality management service will be provided to dwellers through efficient use of the apartment accounting system and the division of administrative expenses.
Second, standardized administrative expense statements will reduce faults in management by the managing company and uncertainty in the division of common administrative expenses.
Third, if the standard accounting management system and administrative expense statement are introduced to many apartments, the apartments can be compared with one another and the quality of apartment management will be improved.