Summaries of Articles on Management Accounting All the article summaries included here were prepared by MBA students in Management 413‚ Cost Accounting. Each article summary includes the name of the student who prepared the summary. Management Accounting in General Adler‚ Paul S. "Time-and-Motion Regained‚" Harvard Business Review (January-February‚ 1993)‚ pp. 97-108. Alonso‚ Ramon L and Cline W. Frasier "JIT Hits Home: A Case Study in Reducing Management Delays‚" Sloan Management Review (Summer
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meaning A budget (from old French bougette‚ purse) is a financial plan and a list of all planned expenses and revenues. It is a plan for saving‚ borrowing and spending.[1] A budget is an important concept in microeconomics‚ which uses a budget line to illustrate the trade-offs between two or more goods. In other terms‚ a budget is an organizational plan stated in monetary terms. In summary‚ the purpose of budgeting is to: 1. Provide a forecast of revenues and expenditures‚ that is‚ construct
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budgeting E-Book Basic definations i. A budget is a detailed quantitative plan for acquiring and using financial and other resources over a specified forthcoming time period. 1. The act of preparing a budget is called budgeting. 2. The use of budgets to control an organization’s activities is known as budgetary control. Difference between planning and control i. Planning involves developing objectives and preparing various budgets to achieve those objectives. ii. Control involves
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ECO318 Public Finance Course Notes 4. The growth of the public sector 1. Introduction Let us begin by taking for granted a large growth in public expenditure as a proportion of output in all western industrialised economies. We shall then concentrate on attempts to explain the growth of the public sector. We need to remind ourselves‚ however‚ of the distinction between resource-using public expenditure and transfer payments since some of the theories below are concerned only with resource-using
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Economics as a Social Science By Piet Keizer Utrecht School of Economics Utrecht University July 2008 1 Content 1. The Character of Modern Science 2. Genesis and Development of Economics as a Social Science 3. Multidisciplinary Economics‚ an Introduction 4. Some Basic Sociology for Economists 5. Appendix Answers to test questions 2 Preface This reader is an attempt to define economics as a social science. In the first place‚ economics is a science. In the second place‚ economics
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Introduction A budget is a financial plan and a list of all planned expenses and revenues. It is a plan for saving‚ borrowing and spending. It is also an important concept in microeconomics‚ which uses a budget line to illustrate the trade-offs between two or more goods. In other terms‚ a budget is an organizational plan stated in monetary terms. But now-a-days a budget is something more than an estimate of revenue and expenditure. There is no alternative of budget for the implementation of development
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INPUT/OUTPUT ORGANIZATION • Accessing I/O Devices • I/O interface • Input/output mechanism Memory-mapped I/O y pp / Programmed I/O Interrupts Direct Memory Access • Buses Synchronous Bus Asynchronous Bus I/O in CO and O/S • • • Programmed I/O Interrupts DMA (Direct memory Access) A bus is a shared communication link‚ which uses one ‚ set of wires to connect multiple subsystems. The two major advantages of the bus organization are versatility and low cost. Accessing I/O Devices
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Cultural Perspectives CCM International Journal of 2003 Vol 3(1): 121–144 Cross Cultural Management ‘To Adapt or Not to Adapt’ Exploring the Role of National Culture in HRM – A Study of Pakistan Shaista E. Khilji Carleton University‚ Ontario‚ Canada This study draws out evidence from 11 organizations‚ local as well as multinationals‚ in Pakistan to test the ‘culture-sensitive’ view. A number of conclusions are drawn. First‚ the findings support this view; evidence shows
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KEY TO BUDGET DOCUMENTS BUDGET 2013-2014 1. The Budget documents presented to Parliament comprise‚ besides the Finance Minister’s Budget Speech‚ the following: A. Annual Financial Statement (AFS) B. Demands for Grants (DG) C. Appropriation Bill D. Finance Bill E. Memorandum Explaining the Provisions in the Finance Bill‚ 2013 F. Macro-economic framework for the relevant financial year G. Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement for the financial year H. Medium Term Fiscal Policy Statement I. Medium Term Expenditure
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TO GOVERNMENT BUDGET UNDER THE FOURTH REPUBLIC: A STUDY OF THE NDC BETTER GHANA AGENDA PHASE I (2008- 2012) Introduction In almost all political systems‚ it is generally accepted that the executive has the primary role in developing an annual budget and presenting it to the legislature. The legislature has the right to review‚ debate‚ in some cases amend‚ and approve or reject the spending plan proposed by the executive. Within this broad framework‚ the actual workings of the budget process vary
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