Many businesses use some form of management accounting, whose functions include budgets, cost allocation methods and cost-volume-profit or break-even analysis. Strategic management accounting goes ...

Businesses both large and small, public and private, for profit and nonprofit, are driven by numbers. Whether it's tracking sales, managing inventory or making payroll, smart managers know that ...

Effective management accounting practices can improve decision-making in organizations, which need sound fundamentals but also speed when trying to decide which strategic paths to follow. In short, ...

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It’s not uncommon for someone who starts a marketing business to have limited accounting knowledge. After all, marketing and accounting are often seen as having opposite functions—the former dealing ...

At many organizations, the question of what business unit should oversee the payroll function will produce the following answer: “Accounting, of course.” Then human resources will enter the ...