Administrative Accounting in the Holy Quran through the Story of Joseph (Peace be upon Him): A Comparative Study

Abstract

The paper dealt with the issue of management accounting in the Holy Qur’an through the story of Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him, and its impact on the science of management accounting in particular and management sciences in general. And to show the scientific truth associated with the Qur’anic and Prophetic text, which clarifies the miracle of the Holy Qur’an in the issue of rooting the science of management accounting, its concept and its essence, through the story of Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him. The study aims to clarify the sayings of the commentators and jurists, past and present, with mentioning the sayings of the scholars of management accounting specialists and linking them to the story of Joseph, peace be upon him, in a scientific form that illustrates the dimensions of the purposes of the Holy Qur’an, which brings together all the different sciences, with the aim of showing the reality of the scientific efforts that our master Joseph, peace be upon him, put in the field Management accounting, which we can consider the first building block and the first basis for the science of management accounting. And it included some results, our master Yusuf showed his ability to manage the crisis of the drought years that afflicted Egypt and its surroundings in an ideal and unique way at that time, until the people of Egypt said in him what we saw a better king than him. And the directors of the departments in their professional career to be their role model in this, our master Yusuf, peace be upon him in this study, the researcher follows the comparative inductive method. The study was as follows: The first topic: Definition: management accounting in language and terminology: The second topic: Rooting management accounting in the Holy Qur’an