The article elucidates main scientific approaches to understanding of essence of management accounting. From scientific … studies of domestic scientists it is concluded that most of them classify management accounting under competence of accounting … in general. It is shown that the first institutional factors concomitant with division of general theory of accounting …

begins with its history. Therefore, an incursion of accounting history helps us to better understand its actual statute, both … as scientific knowledge and as social practice. Accounting history, like the history of any other science, aims research …, document-based, of origins and development stages, from the first accounting notes till accounts today. …