TY - JFULL AU - Zarabizan Zakaria and Syuhaida Ismail and Aminah Md Yusof PY - 2013/11/ TI - Fundamental Variables of Final Account Closing Success in Construction Projects in Malaysia T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 2760 EP - 2766 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/17151 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 82, 2013 N2 - Project management process starts from the planning stage up to the stage of completion (handover of buildings, preparation of the final accounts and the closing balance). Seeing as this process is not easy to be implemented efficiently and effectively, the issue of unsuccessful delivery as per contract in construction has become a major problem for construction projects. These issues have been blamed mainly on inefficient traditional construction practices that continue to dominate the current industry. This is due to several factors, such as environments of construction technology, sophisticated design and customer demand, that are constantly changing and influencing, either directly or indirectly, to the practice of management. Among the identified influences are physical environment, social environment, information environment, political and moral atmosphere. Therefore, this paper is emerged to determine the fundamental variables in the final account closing success in construction project. This aim can be achieved via its objectives of identifying the key constraints to the closing of final accounts in construction projects in Malaysia, investigating solutions to the identified constraints and analysing the relative levels of impact of the identified constraints. It is expected that this paper provides effective measures to avoid or at least reduce the problems in final account closing to the optimum level. It is also anticipated that the finding or outcome reported in this paper could address the unsuccessful contributors in final account closing and define tools for their mitigation for the better development of construction project. ER -