Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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Financial Accounting
As mentioned in Chapter 1, financial accounting is the face your business shows the outside world, through the financial state- ments that are prepared for banks, stockholders, investors, and govern- ment agencies.These financial state- ments are basically historical records that cover a particular time period, including balance sheet, income state- ment, statement of cash flow, and statement of shareholders’ equity. Webster05.qxd 8/29/2003 5:41 PM Page 84 Management Accounting 85 How all this informa- tion is put to meaningful use is as much art as sci- ence. While there are cer- tainly AICPA and individ- ual industry recommenda- tions on the methodology of management account- ing, there are many ways to meet the individual needs of the business managers. Unlike the hard, clear edges of financial accounting, no one way can be named the best, although consultants will evangelize for a fee. The choice is among approaches that have proved more or less useful for your business size and industry. One thing shines clear. You must do something. To survive in today’s global environment, you have to pay attention to key ele- ments of management accounting. It is your understanding of cost behavior that will set you right on the path to business success. Without such an understanding, you might as well be casting runes. Cost Accounting Management accounting is often called cost accounting and you will find the terms used interchangeably. Cost accounting is generally considered the major subset of management account- ing. The field of cost accounting has most of the analytical the- ories and approaches to cost behavior. To make a distinction, management accounting looks to the tasks of decision-making, policy setting, and communicating information, while cost accounting collects and analyzes costing, pricing, and perform- ance details for internal management and, crossing into finan- cial accounting, for external reporting. Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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