globalization of world trade‚ changing product life cycle‚ changing customers tastes that demand to improve levels of service in cost‚ quality‚ reliability‚ delivery and the choice of new products; and the emergence of e-business and so on. As a result of the defects of traditional accounting have been unable to meet these changes new management themes have evolved which in turn has resulted in the development of strategic management accounting. Strategic management accounting aims to provide relevant information
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Chapter 1 Accounting Information Systems and the Accountant True-False Questions 1. The acronym AIS stands for “Accounting Information Standards.” 2. Accounting information systems must be computerized to be effective. 3. It is best to view an AIS as an accounting system that must be computerized. 4. AISs often create information that is useful to non-accountants. 5. In order to be useful‚ raw accounting data must be processed by a computer. 6. The path that data follow in an AIS‚ for
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Executive Summary Accounting information system is an extremely important role in the enterprise management. As technology advances‚ the system software is constantly improving‚ constantly enhance the function of the system‚ thus improving the efficiency of enterprise management. Accounting information system network and multi-function trend is more obvious‚ how is the fastest way to management to provide the latest information to help decision-makers analysis‚ forecasting‚ decision-making‚ improve
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information systems and organization diging changes implemented by Knundstorp align with the changes in business strategy. The Lego Cast Study is about how the toy company has been affected by the rapid and vast change in the way children play with toys and their preference of the same. Historically‚ Lego’s have been a top rated toy for children and when that quickly changed Lego was not expecting it and furthermore not prepared. The company began to lose money‚ “by 2004‚ the company found itself
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LIMITED. As Jessup Limited is fast growing into a large company‚ it will face intensive competition and I‚ as your consultant management accountant will like to enlighten you on the importance of a strategic management accountant in an organisation such as this. While Jessup limited is doing well‚ our operations have reached a stage where we need to better manage our accounting function. As you are unsure of the benefits of a strategic management accountant‚ I will be presenting a report to the board
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Product * A good‚ idea‚ method‚ information‚ object or service created as a result of a process and serves a need or satisfies a want. It has a combination of tangible and intangible attributes (benefits‚ features‚ functions‚ uses) that a seller offers a buyer for purchase. The Product Concept * This orientation holds that consumers will favor those products that offer the most quality‚ performance‚ or innovative features. * A philosophy that a good product creates its own market‚
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this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0951-3574.htm AAAJ 21‚2 Strategic management accounting: how far have we come in 25 years? Kim Langfield-Smith Monash University‚ Melbourne‚ Australia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the origins of strategic management accounting and to assess the extent of adoption and “success” of strategic management accounting (SMA). Design/methodology/approach – Empirical papers which have directly researched SMA
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Introduction Accounting information system An accounting information system (AIS) is a system that first collects and stores data and then processes it into information used by decision makers (investors‚ creditors‚ and managers). This information generated from an AIS can ultimately help decision makers manage organizations more efficiently and strategically. Though an accounting information system can simply be a paper-and-pencil-based manual accounting system‚ today‚ the term AIS is most
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Question no: 01:- Accounting profit and Economic profit. Economic Profit Implicit cost Accounting profit Explicit cost Total opportunity cost Revenue Revenue How an economist views a firm How an accountant views a firm Accounting profit equals sales revenue minus ( - ) all costs except the cost of equity capital‚ while Economic profit is sales revenue minus ( - ) all costs including the opportunity cost of equity capital. Thus economic profit may be lower than the accounting profit. If accounting
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Table of contents Introduction 2 Discussion 2 Costing method & purpose of variance analysis 2 Key findings 3 Material price variance 3 Material usage variance 3 Labour rate variance 4 Labour efficiency variance 5 Variable overhead variance 5 Fixed overhead expenditure variance 6 Fixed overhead volume variance 6 Variable selling and distribution variance 6 Sales variance 7 Responding to publicity 7 Conclusion 8 Appendix 1: Key findings of variance analysis 9 Appendix
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