Rolniczy kalendarz rachunkowy (RKR) jako narzędzie ewidencji, planowania i kontroli w gospodarstwie wiejskim

Constructing book keeping, planning and controlling systems in rural farms is difficult due to their specific features. Apart from its organic nature, which results from the productional and organizational complexity of a farm, family joint effort to operate farm activities and paternalistic ideology put into practice are another, important features. In consequence, even though farms are treated as businesses, its operations have limitations resulting from them being run by families. In the article there was presented the rural farm definition understood as an economic unit comprising of – on the one side – agricultural farm (enterprise), and the other side – household property. The proposed system of documentation and information gathering for our farmers has to be simple and adjusted to capabilities of a farmer. Agricultural Calendar is the most natural evidence tool, used for documenting recent and planned operations. A proposal of evidencing and data processing in the Agricultural Accounting Calendar is presented in the paper. This form of gathering knowledge about a farm and its operations was positively evaluated and accepted by farmers. During the creation of the system an emphasis was put on the functionality of the system. The scope of data collected allows after integration with a planning system, to make a periodical control of variances between realized and planned values. It gives a possibility of learning and improving the existing farmers’ knowledge