Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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Choice or Confusion?
In this multiplicity of approaches lie both opportunity and danger. Choosing an inappropriate cost or manage- ment accounting system can quickly lead to financial or competitive ruin. Pick a middle-of-the-pack approach and you will get middling results. Chose the optimum one for your situation and you may enjoy a significant competitive advantage over other companies.You will find yourself making smarter investment, inventory, pricing, and hiring deci- sions and making them faster. Cost accounting The practice of collecting and analyzing costing, pricing, and performance details for internal man- agement and for external reporting. Webster05.qxd 8/29/2003 5:41 PM Page 86 Management Accounting 87 Aside from some general observations about management accounting systems, the package approaches are not covered in this book. While each system can capture and sift, with vary- ing degrees of felicity, the raw data necessary for cost analysis, it is not until you get into enterprise-level software that you go much beyond standard financial reporting capability. You still have to extract the relevant data and process it separately. The determined manager will find a way to extract and use the data. Cost accounting varies, depending on whether you manufac- ture or retail goods and on whether you provide a product or a service. In each area, the approach to cost identification varies. The goal of all approaches is to aid strategic decision-making and cost management. There are some constants that you need to understand in order to talk about cost accounting. You will want to know how much you have to sell to meet expenses. You will want to know the effect of pricing on sales volume. In just about all systems, you want to find what it cost to operate and maintain the business and the amount of profit made within a specific time period. If you manufacture, you will want to know the value of the raw materials and the work in process. How much did you make from finished goods sold and how many remain to be sold? You take those results and pre- pare for the activities of the next time period. You make budgets Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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