Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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Bill Webster started his accounting practice in 1994, receiving his Enrolled Agent certification in 1996 and CPA in 1998. He is retired from the Federal Aviation Administration after 23 years of federal service as an Air Traffic Control Specialist. His last assignment was program management and implementation of computer systems. Other FAA assignments included a stint as an FAA Academy Instructor in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Assistant Manager for Automation in Fort Worth, Texas. His education includes the MBA program at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California and the MFA program at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His BA is in English from Kenyon College. He also holds Certificated Flight Instructor and Commercial Pilot ratings. WebsterFM.qxd 9/17/2003 9:46 AM Page xii Y ou’ve heard the saying that nothing happens until someone sells something. After that sale, accounting takes over as the basic activity of business. The Three Questions Every business asks three key questions: • How much money came in? • Where did the money go? • How much money is left? The answer to each question can come only from the prac- tice known as accounting. Like other practices such as medi- cine and law, accounting has its own vocabulary. In many ways, accounting is the language of business. Accounting can become quite complex. It has a high MEGO factor. MEGO stands for that state of mental saturation when “My Eyes Glaze Over” in stupefaction. An exasperated student was once overheard complaining, “Who ever thought addition and subtraction could be this hard?” 1 How to Speak Accounting 1 Webster01.qxd 8/29/2003 4:31 PM Page 1 Copyright 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. Whatever your responsibilities are in your business or organi- zation, you need accounting skills to perform at your best. If you are in sales, you learn your product’s features and how to show them to buyers. Those features include the cost or value propo- sition and how it affects your customers’ buying decisions. Marketing managers study how to find and appeal to a product’s target groups. Working up price points can mean some detailed cost analysis. Production managers learn how to plan workflow to control costs. Senior managers use financial statements to speak to those outside about their business’s prospects. Whatever your man- agement level, you need to know accounting because your decisions will often be determined by “the numbers.” That is how managers keep score and are graded. That’s why you bought this book and that’s what we’re going to give you. Fasten your seat belt. We’re tak- ing off! Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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