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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Describe the ‘Challenge of Management Accounting Change’ in light of recent research findings and discuss‚ how can this change help an organisation‚ in getting its strategic‚ tactical and operating objectives? Management accounting change and the continuously changing roles of management accountants have dominated accounting literature for the past few decades and the theme of management accounting change procedures has been
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to managerial accounting (n.d.) has shown that the Institute of Management Accountants describes managerial accounting supports the decision making process through planning and controlling operations. Planning primarily appears in the budgeting process and Controlling occurs when managers compare actual performance with budgeted amounts to identify differences and then act upon differences that appear to be significant. For example‚ manufacturing companies use management accounting techniques to
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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 to an organization’s management to enable them to make strategic plans and strategic decisions. The emphasis is on external information on competitors
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO COST ACCOUNTING QUESTIONS 1. Management accounting stresses the informational needs of internal users over those of external users (the focus of financial accounting). Because of this perspective‚ management accounting provides information in a format that is flexible and relevant to a particular manager‟s usage. Financial accounting‚ on the other hand‚ must provide some uniformity in the manner in which information is presented for it to be comparable among companies and
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Masters of Business Administration – MBA Semester 1 MB 0041 – Financial and Managerial Accounting – Assignment Roll No. 1305015785 Name of the Student: Pallab Kakoti Email id: ksetrajna@gmail.com Mobile : 958 256 3250 Q1. Accounting is one of the oldest‚ structured management information system. Give the meaning of accounting and book keeping? Explain the objectives of accounting? Accounting‚ as an information system is the process of identifying‚ measuring and communicating the economic
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING This report will attempt to explain what Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) is‚ how it developed‚ why Traditional Management Accounting (TMA) is not sufficient to provide information for strategic decisions and the difference between SMA and TMA. It will further outline some of the essential analytical tools or techniques in SMA such as Activity Based Costing (ABC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). SMA is an extremely broad concept‚ so in order to give a bird’s
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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 of directors to: a) Explain the key roles of a strategic management accountant in an advertising
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outstanding customer services at the lowest cost (Trairatvorakul‚ 2011). To operate successfully‚ managers need information from management accounting which provides timely and relevant information for planning‚ controlling‚ decision making‚ and evaluating performance (Horngen‚ Datar‚ & Rajan‚ 2012). The more the international competition increases‚ the more managers need cost management information. Managers are interested in estimating past cost-behavior patterns‚ since this information can help make more
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Chapter 16 Study Guide 1. After 1450 the West controlled a growing volume of international trade. 2. The initiative for Western exploration and conquest came from the kingdom of Portugal. 3. Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and eventually sailed to India. 4. The first Portuguese fleet to reach India sailed there in 1498. 5. The Portuguese trading port and fortress established in India was Goa. 6. Why did the initiative in early conquest and exploration pass to northern European
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