Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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149 Development of Management Accounting: Recent Changes In the 1980s, specialized management teams would take over a company, slash direct costs by cutting jobs and selling produc- tive capacity, and dramatically improve financial performance.The com- pany’s stock price would rise and all would be jolly for a short while. Then, as the company found it harder to maintain production and quality, market share eroded, the stock price went south, and the man- agers who had not successfully slipped away were either fired or jailed. Some well-publicized instances of this phenomenon, such as Sunbeam, helped motivate a reexamination of what made a company successful and how to account for that success. More recently, exam- ples like Enron and WorldCom have shown the costly and shameful doom that waits for those who place their management emphasis solely on financial performance. Companies are starting to edge away from this financial performance model. Management analysts have found that the most successful com- panies have a clear set of qualitative guiding beliefs, as opposed to set- ting quantitative goals such as annual growth targets or earnings per share.The enduring companies always seem to talk about financial and strategic objectives in the context of all the other things they expect to do well. Almost universal among these companies is the idea that profit is a natural byproduct of doing something well, not an end in itself. Webster08.qxd 8/29/2003 5:52 PM Page 149 Accounting for Managers 150 • operation costing • environmental/full cost accounting • target costing • transfer pricing The goal of upper managers is to choose cost management approaches that are compatible with their culture and provide usable outcomes. Companies with significant cost distortion problems that leave millions of dollars on the table each year may benefit by working with an external resource that can per- form a high-level review of their management accounting sys- tem and recommend an affordable, customized solution. Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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