following discussion‚ I will examine how senior management in general and MBA graduates in particular can use the field of Managerial Accounting to make decisions/plan and control employees in order to maximise Profits. For clarity throughout this essay‚ senior managers and MBA graduates should be considered as one in the same. Managerial Accounting Defined Managerial Accounting is the process of using information systems to provide data to senior managers who then use this data for decision-making/planning
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INTRODUCTION Realised-profit‚ matching-based‚ historical cost accruals accounting (HCA) has for over fifty years been repeatedly challenged as being an inadequate basis for the measurement of "income" which reports increments in the value of businesses. Such challenges continue unabated and are made by both accounting standards regulators and by academic commentators. Despite its obvious deficiencies for measuring valuation based income‚ and subject to concept of prudence‚ internationally HCA remains
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to use) Cost (Price) Standards: the cost (purchase price) of the units should be (how much we expect to pay for a particular item) Management by Exception: a system of management in which standards are set for a various operating activities. The actual results are compared to these standards (comparing what happened with what should have happened). The differences are called exceptions and are brought up to the management. Variance Analysis Cycle: preparation of standard cost performance
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Criticism on historical cost accounting 1. Inability to provide useful information in times of rising prices * Assumes that money holds a constant purchasing power‚ so the result become irrelevance in times of rising prices * Received much criticism during high inflation periods of 1970s and 1980s. * Obvious flaw in time of rising prices. 2. Real problem of additivity * Some countries allowed revaluation of non-current assets and the different assets are revaluing
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customers to the firm’s products‚ thereby boosting sales and profits make employees want to stay with the business‚ reduce labor turnover and therefore increase productivity. Attract more employees wanting to work for the business‚ reduce recruitment costs and enable the company to get the most talented employees. Attract investors and keep the company’s share price high‚ thereby protecting the business from takeover. Unethical behavior or a lack of corporate social responsibility‚ by comparison
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CAPACITY ANALYSIS 9-1 No. Differences in operating income between variable costing and absorption costing are due to accounting for fixed manufacturing costs. Under variable costing only variable manufacturing costs are included as inventoriable costs. Under absorption costing both variable and fixed manufacturing costs are included as inventoriable costs. Fixed marketing and distribution costs are not accounted for differently under variable costing and absorption costing. 9-2 The term direct costing
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Health Care Cost Accounting A capitation payment arrangement can be an effective means to control healthcare costs because it allows both the insurer and the employer to predict costs for healthcare services more accurately. When a capitation payment method is used‚ the financial risk of caring for the patient is transferred to the medical delivery system. If the healthcare delivery system does not have a cost accounting system or the ability to develop cost information on each payer and service
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ACCOUNTING TOOLS FOR BUSINESS DECISION MAKING SIXTH EDITION MANAGERIAL This page intentionally left blank Jerry J. Weygandt PhD‚ CPA University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison‚ Wisconsin Paul D. Kimmel PhD‚ CPA University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Donald E. Kieso PhD‚ CPA Northern Illinois University DeKalb‚ Illinois Dedicated to the Wiley sales representatives who sell our books and service our adopters in a professional and ethical
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only. eliminate stock options for managerial compensation. 2. In general‚ there is a direct relationship between the quality of the information provided to managers and the quality of decisions made using that information. True False 3. An operating unit of an organization is called a profit center if it is responsible: only for revenues. for investments in assets. for costs and revenues. only for costs. 4. Properly designed
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ACC2CAD COST ACCOUNTING AND DECISION MAKING SEMESTER 1‚ 2011 MINI CASE STUDY 1 DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION; ETHICS Page 1 Recommendation Page.3 Executive summary Page.4 Introduction Page.5 Analysis Page.6 Recommendations and conclusion Page.7 Appendix 1 – Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants Page.8 References Page.9 Page 2 Recommendation Erin should notify Smart Worx of the postponement
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