PRESENTED BY

SHINIL.K
 Accounting for the human resources deals
with the measurement of costs which are
associated with
recruiting, selecting, training, placing and
developing
the employees of an organization. This also
involves
measuring the present economic value of human
resources to an organization.
American Accounting Association has defined
Human Resource Accounting (HRA) “as a
process of identifying and measuring data
about human resources and communicating
this information to the interested parties”.
1. It helps in giving valuable information to the
management for effective planning and managing
human resources.

2. It helps in measurement of standard cost of recruiting,

selecting, hiring and training people and organization
can select a person with highest expected realisable
value .

3. HRA can change the attitude of mangers, thereby,

they would try to maximize the expected value of
human resources and effective use of human
resources in the organization.
4. It also provides necessary data to devise suitable
promotion policy, congenial work environment and
job satisfaction to the people.
1. There is no well-set standard accounting practice
for measuring the value of human resources.
4. The valuation of human resources is based on the
assumption that the employees may remain with
the organization for certain specified period.
8. There is a possibility that human resource
accounting may lead to the dehumanization in the
organization if the valuation is not done.
11. There is also a possibility that trade unions may
oppose the use of HRA. They may want parity of
wages/salaries and value of the employees.