Question

where I can find an article that discusses the area of managerial accounting? I need to write a summury.

Answer 1

Managerial accounting involves identification, measurement, analysis and interpretation of accounting information and then communicating that information to managers so that the goals and objectives of the organization are achieved in a systematic manner. Managerial accounting, unlike financial accounting, is meant for internal purposes and is not meant for outside parties. The information generated by managerial accounting helps in decision making within the organization.

For instance a budget is developed and analyzed with actual results so that managers can determine the businesses state of operations. Performance reports are developed and used to determine the deviations of the actual results from the budget and the causes of those deviations. Managers can do margin analysis, breakeven analysis, do a constraint analysis and determine the impact of constraints on revenue, profit and cash flow. These analyses will help the managers to take decisions with regards to costing and pricing, allocation of overheads etc.

Thus managerial accounting helps managers take different financial decisions. Some of the key topics in managerial accounting are cost-volume-profit analysis, operational budgeting, capital budgeting, activity based costing, variance analysis etc.

Link to the article:

https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmfa

(You can find articles at International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting. Link is provided above).