Managerial Accounting 222 Week 1 Questions 1-1 How does managerial accounting differ from financial accounting? Managerial accounting and financial accounting differs in who the reporting is for and for what purpose. Managerial accounting is for company managers to use to plan‚ control‚ and make decisions regarding specific strategies. Financial accounting is prepared for owners‚ stakeholders‚ creditors‚ and government authorities and is used to verify information regarding the economic
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• Accounting is the system that measures business activities and process information into reports. • Accountant maintain‚ audit and prepare financial records for a person or a company. • Main careers in accounting - bookkeeper‚ auditor‚ financial advisor‚ taxation‚ carbon accountant and accountant etc… • Bookkeeping is recording financial recorders and summaries of financial transaction. Accounting is measuring business activities and process information into reports. • Main professional accounting
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Part A: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL ACCOUNT 1. Managerial Accounting: The activity involves ‘decision making’ whether to purchase parts already assembled or individual parts. 2. Financial Accounting: It shows that the President is reminding Aminah to prepare a presentation stating an income statement and balance sheet information for last year‚ which the information already exist. 3. Managerial Accounting: Planning‚ controlling‚ evaluating and continuous
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OL3210--Principles of Managerial Accounting—unit 2 complete There are various ways that financial statement information is presented in this article on Nokia. The first way I see is in the Good News section on page 1 “the bulk of its revenues—more than quadrupled‚ from $2.1 billion in 1993 to $8.7 billion last year (1997)‚” and on say “the recent June quarter surging to $616 million‚ up 76% from the same quarter in 1997” this is an partial example of an horizontal analysis (Stone‚ 1998). A horizontal
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Managerial Analysis-Exercise 17.2 Accounting: ACC/561 Managerial Analysis-Exercise 17.2 As part of the managerial analysis exercise 17.2 the Ideal Manufacturing Company is reviewed. The company uses an R & D department to help innovate different machinery products that the business produce. However recently the R & D department is spirally uncontrollably with cost‚ the business has to configure whether to find a different approach or not (John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. 2011). Thus the following exercises
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Decision-making plays a large role in every company’s success. Business professionals should be concerned with how decisions affect workers‚ the local economy‚ other businesses‚ and profits. Satisfying all of these criteria is difficult‚ so which factor is the most important? Should a company solely concern itself with profits? How would the Bible apply to these factors? I believe every company changes their decision making skills based on the situation. Sometimes it is more important to
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Financial accounting reports are prepared for the use of external parties such as shareholders and creditors‚ whereas managerial accounting reports are prepared for managers inside the organization. This contrast in basic orientation results in a number of major differences between financial and managerial accounting‚ even though both financial and managerial accounting often rely on the same underlying financial data. In addition to the to the differences in who the reports are prepared for
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Management Accounting MULTIPLE CHOICE C 1. One of the objectives of management accounting is to provide a. stockholders and potential investors with useful information for decision making b. banks and other creditors with information useful in making credit decisions c. management with information useful for planning and controlling operations d. the Internal Revenue Service with information about taxable income p. 004 D 2. Management accounting is concerned
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1.Managerial accounting vs financial accounting Managerial accounting information system is an information system that produces outputs using inputs and processes needed to satisfy specific managerial objectives. How do management accounting and financial accounting differ? Management Accounting Financial Accounting 1. Internally focused
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TEST QUESTIONS: Questions 1-3 refer to the following: The following selected data for March were taken from Rubenstein Company’s financial statements: Cost of goods available for sale Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods manufactured Finished goods inventory ‑ ending Direct materials used Sales Selling and administrative expenses Direct labor Work in process inventory ‑ beginning $ 65‚000 20‚000 51‚000 10‚000 15‚000 105‚000 30‚000 20‚000 0 1. The gross
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