Chapter 1 Cost Accounting: Information for Decision Making Solutions to Review Questions 1-1. Financial accounting is designed to provide information about the firm to external users. External users include investors‚ creditors‚ government authorities‚ regulators‚ customers‚ competitors‚ suppliers‚ labor unions‚ and so on. Cost accounting systems are designed to provide information to internal users (managers). This difference is important‚ because it affects the design of the systems. Financial
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Rahul Balhara Accounting and Finance: Managerial Use and Analysis MAR12 Sec C Financial Statement Analysis Project -- A Comparative Analysis of Kohl’s Corporation and J.C. Penney Co MAR12 Sec C Analysis of Kohl’s Corporation and J.C. Penney Corporation J.C. Penney was founded by James Cash Penney in 1902. This Plano‚ Texas based company is presently providing family apparel and footwear‚ accessories‚ jewelries‚ beauty products and home furnishings via 1‚100 department stores as of
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Organizational Behaviour Case Study PART A BACKGROUND INFORMATION COMPANY STRUCTURE HISTORY The XYZ Company began its operations in 1988. Soon after its formation it entered the field of Information Technology and Telecommunications by developing and distributing IT and telecom equipments. It became the market leader in 2000 representing the most important companies in these sectors such as Microsoft‚ Hewlett Packard‚ Compaq‚ IBM‚ Lucent Technologies (AT&T)‚ Oracle‚ Wipro and Novell.
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------------------------------------------------- Summary of IAS 32 Objective of IAS 32 The stated objective of IAS 32 is to establish principles for presenting financial instruments as liabilities or equity and for offsetting financial assets and liabilities. [IAS 32.1] IAS 32 addresses this in a number of ways: * clarifying the classification of a financial instrument issued by an entity as a liability or as equity * prescribing the accounting for treasury shares (an entity’s own repurchased shares)
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Chapter 1 Managerial Accounting: Tools for Decision Making Discussion QUESTIONS Q1-1. Financial accounting is oriented toward external users and is concerned with general-purpose financial statements. These financial accounting statements are highly aggregated‚ report on relatively long time periods‚ are oriented toward the past‚ and must conform to external standards. These standards emphasize the use of objective data. Management accounting is oriented toward internal users and is
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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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HOW MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING ADDS VALUE TO ORGANIZATION 1. INTRODUCTION Management accounting provides accounting and related information to support the management of an organization in its internal decision-making. It includes product costing‚ relevant costing‚ cost-volume-profit analysis‚ capital budgeting‚ and operational‚ tactical‚ and strategic planning. A major activity included in the management accounting is the measurement of costs of processes that create value. Management accounting is
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Question: Consider the question from the body of the chapter‚ “Does Ethics Mean Good Business?” Would Milton Friedman and John Mackey agree with what the text has to say on the matter? How would each of them answer the question? Answer: Both Friedman and Mackey don’t agree with what the text had to say‚ each has his own opinion on how working under ethics can make a company profitable. In Friedman’s article “The Social Responsibility of a Business is to Increase its Profits”‚ he stated that for
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Chapter 9 Profit Planning and Activity-Based Budgeting McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objective 1 9-2 Learning objective 1 • List and explain five purposes of budgeting systems. Purposes of Budgeting Systems Budget Budget a detailed plan‚ expressed in quantitative terms‚ that specifies how resources will be acquired and used during a specified period of time. 1. Planning 2. Facilitating Communication and Coordination 3
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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 reports in the accounting department – highlight variances‚ variances raise questions‚ significant variances are investigated to discover their root causes‚ and finally corrective actions are taken. The cycle repeats with new performance reports. Standard Cost Record:
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