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Management Accounting Services
Learn how to understand the meaning of Management Accounting Services first hand.DEFINITION
Management Accounting involves the application of appropriate techniques and concepts to economic data so as to assist management in establishing plans for reasonable economic objectives and in the making of rational decisions with the view toward achieving these objectives.
OBJECTIVE
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| Management Accountants are for internal users like managers. |
Management accountants are concerned with providing information to managers, that is, people inside an organization who direct and control the operations. They provide a variety of reports. Some reports focus on how well managers and business units have performed while other reports provide timely and frequent updates on key indicators, analysis of business situation or opportunity and analytical reports that are needed to investigate specific problems.
Management accountants at appropriate levels are involved actively in the process of managing the entity. The process includes making strategic, tactical and operating decisions and helping to coordinate the efforts of the entire organization. The management accountant participates, as part of management, in assuring that the organization operates as a unified whole in its long-run intermediate and short-run best interests.
SCOPE
Management accounting is concerned primarily with providing information to internal managers who are charged with planning and controlling the operations of the form and making a variety of management decisions. Generally, management accountants do the following tasks:
Scorekeeping or data accumulation which enables both internal and external partied to evaluate organizational performance and position.
Interpreting and reporting of information that helps manager to focus on operating problems, opportunities as well as inefficiencies. This is commonly associated with current planning and control and the analysis and investigations of recurring routine internal accounting reports to signal situations in which management action may be required.
Problem-solving or quantification of the relative merits of possible courses of action as well as recommendations as to the best procedure. This is commonly associated with non-recurring decisions.
In decision making
Management Accountants influences decision making thru its three (3) out of four (40 aspects of decision making, naming:
- Planning which involves setting of goals for the form, evaluating the ways to meet the goals and picking out what appears to be the best way to meet the goals. (Budgets, Profit Planning, Standards)
- Controlling which involves the setting the evaluation of whether actual performance conforms with planned goals. (Performance Results; probably Variance Analysis
- Directing/Motivating/Leading (Daily Sales Receipt)
Out of four, only organizing is not in the scope of Management Accounting.
COMPARING FINANCIAL AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Users of Information/Reports
Management Accountants - Internal Users
Financial Accountants - External Users
Purpose
Management Accountants - To provide information to management in order for them to carry out their functions in the entity.
Financial Accountants - To provide information regarding financial options and financial position/conditions of an entity to external users for decision-making purposes.
Reports Generated
Management Accountants - Various Reports
Financial Accountants - General Purpose Financial Statements (Notes supplanted)
Presentation Standards
Management Accountants - In accordance with the entity's management desire
Financial Accountants - In accordance with IFRS.
Period Covered
Management Accountants - It Depends.
Financial Accountants - Annually, Quarterly, Semi-annually.
Emphasis on Periods
Management Accountants - Future Periods and Present Periods
Financial Accountants - Past Periods.
Emphasis on Precision of Data
Management Accountants - No emphasis on precision of data.
Financial Accountants - Highly precise and it is required.
Emphasis on Timeliness of Data
Management Accountants - Highly emphasis on timely date
Financial Accountants - No emphasis on timely data.
Usually, in an organization chart, a management accountant falls on the "controllers" category under the control of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
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| A table signifying the difference. |
STANDARDS, ACCREDITATION, ETHICAL CONDUCTS
The Institute of Management Accountants issues the standards of ethical conduct for practitioners of Management Accounting and Financial Management.
Here are some of the standards of ethical conduct that a management accountant must follow:
- Competence
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Objectivity
And here are the resolutions of ethical conducts stipulated:
- Discuss problems with the immediate superior is included.
- If immediate superior is involved, report it on levels above the immediate superior.
- Clarify, cite relevant ethical issues by confidential discussion.
~ With Reference from Management Accounting book (2014 edition) by Ma. Elenita Balatbat Cabrera.~
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