Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Accounting Discipline
Overview
Managerial Accounting measures, analyzes
Financial
Accounting
Purpose
Decision making
Communicate financial
position to outsiders
Primary
Users
Internal managers
External users
Future-oriented
Past-oriented
GAAP compliant;
CPA audited
Historical monthly,
quarterly reports
Focus/Empha
sis
Rules
Time Span
Behavioral
Issues
Designed to influence
Indirect effects on
employee
behavior
employee behavior
2009
Pearson Prentice
Hall. All rights reserved.
A Value Chain
Implementation
Professional Ethics
The four standards of ethical conduct for