Accounting for Managers
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 5
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Accounting for Managers
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 5
❏ Management accounting is as much art as science. You will have to practice and closely follow the behavior of pat- terns in the daily flow of business operations. ❏ Cost accounting is free form, compared with financial accounting. Many managers never make the transition to understanding it and so fall into the trap of looking only at revenues, expenses, and financial statements. ❏ Breakeven and cost/volume/profit analysis are your Swiss Army knife of basic analytical tools. Understanding how they work is the foundation of your operational manage- ment decision process. ❏ There are limitations to traditional BE/CVP analysis. It is as important to understand them as it is to understand the benefits. ❏ Operating leverage can be an effective tool in managing profits. Webster05.qxd 8/29/2003 5:41 PM Page 101 102 1 B reakeven and its related cost/volume/profit concepts apply to all profit-making activities. In this chapter we’ll discuss inventory and overhead, two important topics. Cost Behavior, Inventory, and Overhead Understanding inventory costing is another part of cost accounting that affects primarily business managers. Inventory in merchandising, where you buy a finished good to sell to cus- tomers, is more straightforward than inventory in manufactur- ing, where you have three levels of inventory to track, as we’ll discuss shortly. Managers at all levels of government, educational institu- tions, and nonprofit organizations join businesses in tackling the fundamental concept of overhead. In a standard accounting textbook, overhead is usually defined as the sum of all costs after direct materials and labor have been subtracted. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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