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Chapter 1

This document discusses managerial accounting and is divided into chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of managerial accounting, including what managerial accounting is, why it is important for careers, and skills managers need. It discusses the role of ethics in business and corporate social responsibility. Managerial accounting focuses on internal users and provides timely information to help managers plan, control and make decisions for an organization.
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Chapter 1

This document discusses managerial accounting and is divided into chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of managerial accounting, including what managerial accounting is, why it is important for careers, and skills managers need. It discusses the role of ethics in business and corporate social responsibility. Managerial accounting focuses on internal users and provides timely information to help managers plan, control and make decisions for an organization.
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CONTENTS

 CHAPTER 1: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: AN


OVERVIEW
 CHAPTER 2: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING AND
COST CONCEPTS
MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
 CHAPTER 3: COST-VOLUME-PROFIT
RELATIONSHIPS
 CHAPTER 4: PROFIT PLANNING
 CHAPTER 5: FLEXIBLE BUDGETS AND
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 6: STANDARD COSTS AND VARIANCES

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Contents:
CHAPTER 1: (1) What is managerial accounting?
MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: (2) Why does managerial accounting matter to
your career? and
AN OVERVIEW
(3) What skills do managers need to succeed?
discussing two topics:
PowerPoint Authors:
 The role of ethics in business
 Corporate social responsibility

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What is accounting ?
 Accounting is a system of identifying, recording
and communicating monetary information
WHAT IS MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING  Two main types of accounting :
- Financial
- Managerial

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Managerial and Financial Accounting Managerial Accounting

Accounting System
(accumulates financial and - Focus on internal users
managerial accounting data in the
cost accounting system)
- Emphasis on future: planning, controlling,
makinh decision
Financial Accounting
Managerial Accounting - Emphasis on timeliness
provides information for
provides information to managers of an
- Forcus on segment reporting
external users:stockholders, organization’s who plan - No national or Inter national rules
creditors and others who are and control its
out side the organization operations.
External Internal Internal
Users Users Users
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The Meaning of Managerial Accounting


Planning
• To provide information for planning
the organization’s actions.  The detailed formulation of action to achieve a
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particular end is the management activity called
planning.
• To provide information for controlling
Example
2 the organization’s actions.
Setting objectives Improve Quality

• To provide information for making


3 effective decisions. Identifying methods to Supplier Evaluation
achieve those objectives Program
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Decision Making Controlling


 The process of choosing among competing  The managerial activity of monitoring a plan’s
alternatives is called decision making. implementation and taking corrective action as
needed is controlling.`

Compare
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Performance Performance
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Managerial Accounting
Comparison of Financial and
Managerial Accounting
Financial Accounting Managerial Accounting
- Focus on internal users
- Emphasis on future: planning, controlling, Externally focused Internally focused
Must follow externally imposed rules No mandatory rules
makinh decision
- Emphasis on relevance and timeliness Objective financial information Financial and information; subjective
information possible nonfinancial
- Forcus on segment reporting
- No national or Inter national rules Historical orientation Emphasis on the future
Information about the firm as a whole Internal evaluation and decisions
based on very detailed information
More self-contained Broad, multidisciplinary
Internal
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What Skills Do Managers Need to What Skills Do Managers Need to


Succeed? Your Career? Succeed? Your Career?
 Strategic Management Skills  Process management skills
 Can think critically about situation to develop strategies
 Continuos improvement the business process
to grow the business
 Product improvement  Enhacement of the value chain to increase
 Customer knowledge customer willingness to purchase a product or
 Operational excellence
service
 Risk management skill
 Can accurately assess the risk associated with a
decision, analyze those risk and choose a proper
course of action

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Value Chain The Theory of Constraints (TOC


 Research and develop
 Product design
 Manufacturing
 marketing
 distrubution
 Customer service

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Managerial Accounting and Ethical Managerial Accounting and Ethical


Conduct Conduct (cont.)
 The objective of profit maximization should be  Behavior can be right or wrong; it can be proper
constrained by the requirement that profits be or improper; and the decisions we make can be
achieved through legal and ethical means. fair or unfair.
 Ethical behavior involves choosing actions that  Companies in business for the long term find that
are right, proper, and just. it pays to treat all with honesty and loyalty.

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Certification
 Three major forms of certification for managerial
accountants:
 Certificate in Management Accounting
 Certificate in Public Accounting
 Certificate in Internal Auditing
 Each certification offers particular advantages to
a managerial accountant.
 All three certifications offer proof of achievement
at a minimum level of professional competence.

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