Data Management Strategy in Organizations Today Regardless of the size of an organization‚ proper data management is vital for innumerable reasons. Data is stored in various forms- computer‚ paper‚ or any form of electronic media. Some data can be obstructed after a certain period‚ but other data would be crucial for the operative management of a company. In other words‚ inadequate data management could contribute to the success or failure of an organization. Unfortunately many companies have
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1. What is data vis-à-vis information? When can information be deemed good and useful? How are these related/ connected to an information system? Data are facts‚ which may or may not be processed (edited‚ summarized‚ or refined) and have no direct effect on the user. By contrast‚ information causes the user to take an action that he or she otherwise could not‚ or would not‚ have taken. Information is often defined simply as processed data. This is an inadequate definition. Information is determined
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States‚ United Kingdom‚ and Chinese Accounting Systems‚ Accounting Standards‚ Accounting Practices This report discusses the accounting practices of the following countries U.K‚ U.S.A and China. An analysis of these different accounting systems will be conducted on issues such as the growth and background‚ social‚ economic and fiscal pressures that have led to each nations current characteristics. Concluding on the direction each nations accounting systems and practices seem to be heading towards
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING This report will attempt to explain what Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) is‚ how it developed‚ why Traditional Management Accounting (TMA) is not sufficient to provide information for strategic decisions and the difference between SMA and TMA. It will further outline some of the essential analytical tools or techniques in SMA such as Activity Based Costing (ABC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). SMA is an extremely broad concept‚ so in order to give a bird’s
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Summary of Case 1 Question: 2 Answer: 3 Summary of Case Pittman Company is a small but growing manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. The company has no sales force of its own; rather‚ it relies completely on independent sales agents to market its products. These agents are paid a commission of 15% of selling price for all item sold. The company’s budgeted income statement for next year follows: Pittman Company Budgeted Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31 Sales |
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What is Strategic Management Accounting? And why‚ Strategic Management Accounting? Simple definition: Management Accounting in the context of business strategies being planned and implemented by an organisation. Strategy is the way that a firm positions and distinguishes itself from its competitors. These business strategies must be developed in the context of the internal and external environments so that they are practical‚ or else they will remain a theoretical wish-list. It is also
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Case Study: Enron Corporation Accounting Scandal 1. What is Enron Scandal? Formed in 1985 from a merger of Houston Natural Gas and Internorth‚ Enron Corp. was the first nationwide natural gas pipeline network. Over time‚ the firm’s business focus shifted from the regulated transportation of natural gas to unregulated energy trading markets. The guiding principle seems to have been that there was more money to be made in buying and selling financial contracts linked to the value of energy
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example: * Manufacturing companies will need a set of procedures and documents for the production cycle; non-manufacturing companies do not. * Government agencies need procedures to track separately all inflows and outflows from various funds‚ to ensure that legal requirements about the use of specific funds are followed. * Financial institutions do not need extensive inventory control systems. * Passenger service companies (e.g.‚ airlines‚ bus‚ and trains)
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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING Lectures Toyota – brake failure even though standards were followed‚ the standards weren’t revised – RIGID Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd. ‘turned around every single one of its sick leased units‚ creating viability out of a liability.’ Boeing Reached the point where between 70% and 80% of the costs assigned to the final cost objectives of a manufacturing or engineering line organisations were allocations from common overhead pools ‘Because technology related costs were buried
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Accounting System Controls In accounting systems‚ certain controls are needed to ensure that employees are doing their jobs properly and ensure that the system runs properly. These checks are in the best interest of the organization. These controls come in the form of internal and external controls for the system. The internal controls are the checks that are placed in the system my the company ’s own management and directors. Today more and more companies are moving from the manual accounting
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