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Management Accounting in Support of Strategy
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Management Accounting in Support of Strategy

by Graham S. Pitcher
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
212 pages
5h 15m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 1

Management Accounting and the Strategic Management Framework

What Is Management Accounting?

Traditionally management accounting has been distinguished from financial accounting by its focus on providing information for management activities. Definitions of management accounting in the 1970s encompassed activities such as providing support for managerial decision making, allocating resources, monitoring, and evaluating performance. Techniques such as budgeting and variance analysis to aid planning and control were commonplace, as were techniques such as investment appraisal and cost volume profit analysis. These techniques are still utilized today yet many of the traditional management accounting techniques and management information ...

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ISBN: 9781947843820