Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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Where Will All This New Knowledge Take You? 11 Webster11.qxd 8/29/2003 10:23 AM Page 203 Copyright 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. changed, or consolidated. The whole emphasis seems to be to move responsibility for this sort of analysis away from tradition- al cost accounting and more toward recognition of all the aspects of the environment. The coming changes will have the biggest impact on man- agers in medium to large companies that have an exposure to global competition. In other words, just about all of them. Among a host of changes in other areas, both financial and management accounting systems will be see radical restructur- ing. The impact of Sarbanes-Oxley is still making its way through the regulatory digestive system like some great capy- bara. One of the probable impacts will be to hasten the discon- nect of financial reporting procedures from management and cost accounting systems. New Systems and New Thinking As we saw in the discussions of environmental, activity-based costing, and balanced scorecard, these newer systems want to expand the universe of relevant information. The traditional management accounting systems are primarily financial in that they’re tied to the general ledger in the way they collect and report information. Traditional reporting of such information as favorable and unfavorable variances seems contrived when compared with real-world concerns such as on-time deliveries, reject rates, and production yields. The world that traditional cost accounting described has shifted. When Andrew Carnegie was riveted on direct costs, labor followed by material drove the cost structure. The relative- ly small overheads of that period have ballooned to contempo- rary structures that account for more than half the cost. At the same time, the distinctions between direct and indirect costs and between fixed and variable costs become more blurred. There is even some fundamental rethinking of the whole process of recording, collecting, and reporting cost activity. Coming under attack is the fundamental theory that, in order to control the business, management has to record and check Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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