1 THE ROLE AND ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGERIAL FINANCE Learning Goals 1. Define finance‚ the major areas of finance‚ and the career opportunities available in this field‚ and the legal forms of business organization. 2. Describe the managerial finance function and its relationship to economics and accounting. 3. Identify the primary activities of the financial manager within the firm. 4. Explain why wealth maximization‚ rather than profit maximization‚ is the firm’s goal and how the
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professionals‚ operational and marketing managers‚ top-level executives‚ and information technologists. Managerial accounting is therefore concerned with the provisions and use of accounting information to managers within organizations‚ to provide them with the basis to make informed business decisions that will allow them to be better equipped in their management and control functions. Managerial accounting therefore is important to a manufacturing organisation in the following ways: Motivating Managers
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Chapter 1—Introduction to Managerial Accounting TRUE/FALSE 1. Management accounting information is only used by manufacturing organizations. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy OBJ: LO: 1-1 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic STA: AICPA: BB-Industry | IMA: Business Applications | ACBSP: APC-25-Managerial Characteristics/Terminology KEY: Bloom’s: Knowledge NOT: 1 min. 2. The managerial activity of monitoring a plan’s implementation and taking corrective action as needed is referred to as decision making
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Managerial theories of the firm Managerial theories of the firm place emphasis on various incentive mechanisms in explaining the behaviour of managers and the implications of this conduct for their companies and the wider economy. According to traditional theories‚ the firm is controlled by its owners and thus wishes to maximise short run profits. The more contemporary managerial theories of the firm examine the possibility that the firm is controlled not by its owners‚ but by its managers‚ and
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TEST BANK CHAPTER 1 Intercorporate Investments: An Overview MULTIPLE CHOICE Use the following information on a company’s investments in equity securities to answer questions 1- 4 below. The company’s accounting year ends December 31. | |Date of acquisition|Cost |Fair value |Date sold |Selling price | |Investment | | |12/31/10 | |
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How do managerial accounting practices benefit business organizations? Nowadays‚ managerial accounting practice is practiced by many successful producers in Japan‚ Korea‚ China and others. Therefore‚ they are able to use their resources effectively and efficiently. Companies practicing managerial accounting are also able to maintain the quality of their products yet still offering reasonable price for their products. Managerial accounting differs from traditional financial accounting practice in
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In economic analysis the most common objective that firms are regarded pursuing is profit maximization. It best explains the normal behavior of the firm. The profit maximization model is based on the assumption that each firm seeks to maximize its profit under certain constraints (technical and market). Propositions of the Model: • By employing certain techniques of production‚ a firm converts various inputs into outputs of higher value. • Each firm aims to earn maximum profit. • A firm operates
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Managerial and Financial Accounting Report FIN540 Accounting for Managerial Decision Making Abstract Financial accounting develops account information that is used by external parties such as stockholders‚ suppliers‚ banks‚ and government regulatory agencies in their decision-making. Management accounting develops confidential accounting information that is used by managers within an organization. Management accounting is a complex process of identifying‚ accumulating and analyzing information
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3. Describe what Pareto efficiency is and why economists use this criterion for comparing alternative economic systems. Use a graphic display in this essay. The term is named for an Italian economist‚ Vilfreo Pareto. A central concept in economics is Pareto efficiency. A situation is said to be Pareto efficient if there is no way to rearrange things to make at least one person better off without making anyone worse off. What makes Pareto efficiency important is that almost everyone would agree that
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Commerce 354 Lecture Notes and Problems Prepared by J. Kroeker Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia NOTE: Please refer to the “Lecture Preparation Instructions” tab in Vista prior to each class for detailed instructions and reading assignments. Each lecture will require preparation. Identify Issues Analyze Data Build Model Run Model Make Decision Management Accounting: Decision-making The Corporate Environment: Corporations are a conglomeration of people
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