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This 6-page paper focuses on various performance evaluations when it comes to management accouting systems. Systems discussed include cost accounting and activity based accounting. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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flow versus debts and receivables versus payables. All of these methods are used to determine, or evaluate, the financial health of a business.
In this paper, well examine how various factors of managerial accounting (aka "cost" accounting) are used for evaluation of a companys performance. Well examine some of the literature on
this issue and determine how various accounting practices can be used to determine how well (or how poorly) a company might be doing in its business dealings. Definition of Management
Accounting One of the main purposes of accounting is to determine and help manage costs, which is where the concept of "managerial
accounting" (also known as "cost" accounting) comes into the picture (Fisher, 2003). Managerial accounting manages actual costs that can be either traced to an operating department or division (and which
are controlled by department or division managers) and indirect costs (that might be difficult to trace to a specific department or division and so are spread throughout the company) (Fisher,
2003). Another type of accounting is Activity Based Accounting, which breaks down costs more based on activity (i.e., sales, receivables, research and
development and so on) rather than departments. Some Methods - the Literature How, then, is accounting used as a performance evaluator?
There is plenty of literature available to rely on when it comes to answering this question. Dearman and Shields (2001), for example, report on how managers cost knowledge has an
impact on cost-based judgment performance, especially when a volume-based cost accounting system is used. These authors focus on the activity-based accounting (or costing) method, which is known as "ABC," and
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