making across the various functional areas of an organization Managerial accounting: the form of accounting concerned with providing information to managers for use in planning and controlling operations and for decision making Financial accounting: the form of accounting concerned with providing information to shareholders‚ creditors‚ and others outside the organization The work of managers and their need for managerial accounting information Every organization has managers – someone must be responsible
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Cost Accounting - Chapter 1 1. Flexibility is said to be the hallmark of modern management accounting‚ whereas standardization and consistency describe financial accounting. Explain why the focus of those two accounting systems differs. Financial accounting is more about the bigger picture—it evaluates the finances of the organization as a whole‚ using historical‚ quantitative‚ monetary‚ and factual data. It is more formal and requires the use of GAAP. The information financial accounting
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Managerial Accounting and the Business Environment Chapter 1 © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. Learning Objective 1 Understand the role of management accountants in an organization. McGraw-‐Hill/Irwin Slide 2 Organizational Structure Decentralization is the delegation of decisionmaking authority throughout an organization. Corporate Organization Chart Board of Directors President Purchasing Personnel Vice President Operations Chief Financial Officer Controller
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CHAPTER 1 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING‚ TYPES AND ETHICS. 1) Managerial Accounting: Firms internal accounting system and designed to support the information needs of managers in order to make decisions. Not bound by GAAP. a) Managerial accounting has 3 objectives: i) To provide information for planning organization actions ii) To provide information for controlling organization actions. iii) To provide information for making effective decisions. b) Reports that help mangers that are nonfinancial are:
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(CBA) Course Syllabus BFIN 340: Cost Accounting I COURSE INFORMATION Course Code & Title: BFIN 340: Cost Accounting I Credits: 3 credits Prerequisite: BFIN 231 Classroom: H204 Schedule: TTh: 8:00 – 9:15 Term: Fall 2014 INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION Instructor: Rima Hakim Office: Bldg G‚ Room 101-H Office Hours: TTh 9:30 – 11:30‚ Else by appointment Instructor’s Email: hakimrc@rhu.edu.lb Textbook & Material: Cost Accounting. 15th edition‚ Horngren‚ Datar and
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ACCT2202 Advanced Corporate Accounting Week 1: Unit introduction ACCT2202 Advanced Corporate Accounting: Unit staff • Lecturer-in-charge and tutor • Dr Rick Newby • Tutors • Mr Val Chin (Val.Chin@uwa.edu.au) • Mr Kevin Burns (Kevin.Burns@uwa.edu.au) Unit overview: Learning outcomes • Completion of this unit should help you to: • interpret and apply specific requirements of a range of Australian Accounting Standards (AASBs) • critically evaluate accounting requirements under Australian
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Assignment 1: Review of Accounting Ethics 1. Given the corporate ethical breaches in recent times‚ assess whether or not you believe that the current business and regulatory environment is more conducive to ethical behavior. Provide support for your answer. With the historical amount of fraud that has taken place over the last few decades‚ there had to be a stop of some sort to this type of unethical behavior. Through our class lectures‚ discussions‚ and readings‚ I have learned about the
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ACCOUNTING FOR FREQUENT FLIERS INTRODUCTION: Accounting for frequent fliers had become a controversial topic since American Airlines in 1981 introduced them as a loyalty program. Loyalty programs provide members with benefits such as discounts and saving rewards‚ which make these programs popular among consumers (Liebermann‚ 1999). In this specific case‚ we define the Frequent Flier Program (FFP) as “the number of mileage credits and associated liabilities outstanding”. This program as we might see
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What is Accounting Ethics? The term accounting ethics are formed by the combination of two different words‚ namely accounting and ethics. Fortes‚ (2011) believes that ‘accounting is the collection‚ measurement‚ analysis and reporting of events in financial terms.’ While Karthik‚ (2010) believes that ‘ethics in its broader sense‚ deals with human conduct in relation to what is morally good and bad‚ right and wrong. It is the application of values to decision-making. These values include
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Homework Assignment 1: MC 3. (A) MC 4. (D) MC 5. (B) 1) What are the three major business activities of a company that are motivated and shaped by planning activities? Explain each activity. Investing Activities: consists of the acquiring and disposing of assets needed to produce and sell a company’s products or services. These assets may be long-term or short-term assets depending on the nature of the company. Financing Activities: the methods companies use to fund the investments in assets
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