ACC 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Balanced Scorecard, Organizational Ethics, Management Accounting

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Chapter 1: the role of accounting i nformation in ethical management decision- uncertainties: issues and information about which we have doubt. biases: preconceived notions adopted without careful thought. decision quality: characteristics of a decision that affect the likelihood of achieving a positive outcome. organizational strategies: tactics managers use to take advantage of core competencies while working toward the organizational vision strategies guide long term decisions www. notesolution. com. operating plans: involve specific short-term decisions that shape an organization"s day to day activities, such as drawing cash from a bank line of credit, hiring an employee, or ordering materials. actual operations: various actions taken and results achieved over a period of time (ex: customer orders received, revenues earned, etc) management control systems: include planning, monitoring, and mo tivating, and controlling and measuring performance company"s vision -> strategy -> set goals, measures, targets -> planning -> decision making & implementation -> control and evaluation.

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Management accounting plays a key role in organizations todayand therefore decision makers in the organization must understandhow to create and use good management accounting information. Intodayâs business environment, business wants to track performanceinformation that goes beyond just the cost-based information ofhistoric general ledger systems provided by traditional financialaccounting information. Good management accounting involves aresponsibility to manage a wide variety of critical managementaccounting information using management accounting system andmanagement accounting techniques such as cost-volume- profitanalysis, marginal costing and absorption costing to producerelevant management report for informed decision making.

This was the summary of the speech delivered by a conferencespeaker about the role of management accounting and managementaccounting system in an organization. The General Manager of yourorganization sees management accounting function as very crucial inproviding management information well informed decision makingwithin the organization. Knowing that you are studying managementaccounting at the HND level, the organization sponsored you toattend this conference. After this conference the Generalmanagement has asked you (Management Accounting Officer) to write areport to him covering management accounting and managementaccounting system together with different costing techniques andreporting to enable the organization implement them.

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