Managerial Accounting ppt Lecture 1

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2015 Spring2015 Spring

Introduction to
Managerial Accounting
Chapter 1
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Review --- what’s accounting
Why is financial accounting needed?
Why is managerial accounting needed?

Review --- what’s accounting

Objective 1
Managers’ responsibilities
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Managers’ Responsibilities
Setting goals and
objectives
Overseeing day-to-day
operations
Evaluating results
of operations
Directing
Controlling
Decision
Making
Planning
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Planning
• Setting goals and objectives and how to
achieve them
• Examples of planning :
• Generate more sales via opening new
Starbucks stores in HKU main building
• Reduce labor costs by reducing store
hours of the Starbucks at the library
• Budgets
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Directing
•Overseeing company’s day-to-day operations
•Examples:
• Using daily/weekly sales reports to adjust
marketing strategies
• Using product cost reports to adjust raw
material usage
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Controlling
•Evaluating results of operations against plans
and making adjustments as needed
•Examples:
• Comparing budgeted sales with actual sales
to take corrective actions
• Comparing budgeted product costs against
actual product costs to take corrective
actions
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Decision Making
•Management is continually making decisions
while it plans, directs, and controls operations
•Examples:
• Price setting or product offerings
• Renovation of facilities
• Operation openings or closings
•Managerial accounting gathers, summarizes,
and reports on the financial impact of each of
these decisions.
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Objective 2
Distinguish financial accounting from
managerial accounting
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Managerial vs. Financial
Accounting
Issue Managerial Financial
Primary users Internal External
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Managerial accounting: managers of various department
Financial accounting: creditor and shareholders

Accounting
Purpose of
information
Plan, direct,
control
Users make
investing and
lending decisions
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e.g. Managerial accounting: Starbuck managers use cost information of
chocolate sandwich to decide whether or not to introduce the new product;
e.g. Financial accounting: Shareholders use the information to decide whether
the company is under or over-valued

Accounting
Primary
accounting
product
Any internal
report deemed
worthwhile by
management
Financial
Statements
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Accounting
What is included?
Defined by
management
Determined by
GAAP
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Accounting
Underlying basis
of information
Internal and
external
transactions,
focus on future
Based on
historical
transactions with
external parties
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e.g. Managerial accounting: Budgets on opening a Starbucks in HKU Main
Building. A manager needs info on the shipping fee of coffee, cleaning
machine, etc.
Financial accounting: the net income of Starbucks in 2014 is based on
historical transactions

Accounting
Emphasis
Data must be
relevant
Data must be
reliable and
objective
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e.g. Managerial accounting: to make budgets for opening a Starbucks
in HKU Main Building needs cost information for the table, the
personnel, coffee machine, etc. The information needs to be reverent.
Financial accounting: financial statement information is regulated by
GAAP. The information needs to be reliable and objective.
Overstating net income is a type of corporate misconduct.

Accounting
Business Unit
Segments of the
business
Company as a
whole
Preparation
Depends on
management
needs
Annually and
quarterly
Verification Internal audit External audit
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Managerial vs. Financial Accounting
Information
requirements
No requirement
Mandatory: SEC
requires publicly
traded companies
to issue audited
financial
statements
Impact on
employee
behavior
Careful
consideration
Adequacy of
disclosure
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E1-9A
a. Companies must follow GAAP in their
_________ systems.
b. Financial accounting develops reports for
external parties, such as __________ and
_______________.
c. When managers evaluate the company’s
performance compared to the plan, they are
performing the ____________ role of
management.
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E1-9A
d. __________ are decision makers inside a
company.
e. _____________________ provides
information on a company’s past
performance to external parties.
f. ______________________ systems are not
restricted by GAAP, but are chosen by
comparing the costs versus the benefits of
the system.
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E1-9A
g. Choosing goals and the means to achieve
them is the ____________ function of
management.
h. _______________________ systems report
on various segments or business units of the
company.
i. ______________________ statements of
public companies are audited annually by
CPAs.
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Objective 3
Describe organizational structure and the
roles and skills required of management
accountants within the organization
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Organizational Structure
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Changing Roles of Management
Accountants
• Impact of technology
• Ensuring accurate financial records
• Planning, analyzing, and interpreting
accounting data
• Providing decision support
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Required Skills of Managerial
Accountants
• Knowledge of financial and managerial
accounting
• Analytical skills (critical thinking)
• Knowledge of how a business functions
• Ability to work on a team
• Oral and written communications skills
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E1-11A
a. The _____ and the _____ report to the CEO.
b. The internal audit function reports to the CFO or
_______ and the _________________.
c. The __________ is directly responsible for
financial accounting, managerial accounting and
tax reporting.
d. The CEO is hired by the _________________.
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E1-11A
e. The __________ is directly responsible for
raising capital and investing funds.
f. The __________ is directly responsible for the
company’s operations.
g. Managerial accountants often work with
__________________________.
h. The subgroup of the board of directors is called
the _________________.
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Objective 4
Describe the role of the Institute of
Management Accountants (IMA) and use its
ethical standards to make reasonable ethical
judgments
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Institute of Management Accountants
(IMA)
• Professional association for management
accountants
• IMA’s functions
• Certification (CMA)
• Practice Development
• Education
• Networking
• Ethical Standards
• Public Education
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Some statistics

Summary of IMA Ethical
Standards
Competence Confidentiality
Integrity Credibility
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Ethical Behavior
• Means doing the right thing, regardless of
consequences
• Examples of unethical behavior
– Allowing reimbursement of false expense reports
– Manipulating income
– Performing tasks not qualified to perform
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Steps to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas
• Follow company’s policies for reporting
unethical behavior
• If not resolved
– Discuss with immediate supervisor
– Discuss with objective advisor
– Consult an attorney
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Unethical vs. Illegal Behavior
• Not all unethical behavior is illegal, but all
illegal behavior is unethical.
• Unethical behavior includes:
– Dishonesty
– Unfairness
– Lack objectivity
– Irresponsible
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E1-12A
a. The ______ is the professional association
for management accountants.
b. The institute offers a professional
certification called the _______, which
focuses on managerial accounting topics,
economics, and business finance.
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E1-12A
c. The institute find that people holding the
______ certification earn, on average,
______% more than those without the
certification.
d. The institute’s monthly publication, called
____________________, addresses current
topics of interest to management
accountants.
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E1-12A
e. The institute says that approximately _____
percent of accountants work inside of
organizations, rather than at CPA firms.
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Objective 5
Discuss and analyze the implications
of regulatory and business trends
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX)
• Background

High profile accounting scandals in early 2000s: Enron,
Tyco, and WorldCom
• Regulator’s response

The U.S. Congress enacted Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002
• Key provisions
1. Managers and auditors should establish internal controls
and provide evaluation on the weakness of those controls
2. Established Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
3. The Act requires both the CEO and CFO to certify in
writing that their company’s financial statements and
disclosures fairly represent the results of operations.
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX)
• Key provisions (continued)
3. The Act places the power to hire, compensate, and
terminate public accounting firms in the hands of the
audit committee.
4. The Act places restrictions on audit firms, such as
prohibiting public accounting firms from providing a
variety of non-audit services to an audit client.
5. The Act establishes severe penalties for certain
behaviors, such as:
• Up to 20 years in prison for altering or destroying any
documents that may eventually be used in an official
proceeding.
• Up to 10 years in prison for retaliating against a
“whistle blower.”
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Corporate Social Sustainability and
Responsibility
• Growing movement toward sustainability and social
responsibility by both consumers and corporates
– Sustainability:
• The ability to meet the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs
– Social Responsibility:
• Companies’ responsibility to carefully consider how their
business affects employees, consumers, and local citizens.
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Tools for Time-Based
Competition
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• E-commerce
• Supply-chain management
• Lean production
• Just-in-time (JIT)
• Total quality management (TQM)
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Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP)
• System that integrates a company’s functions,
departments, and data
• Advantages
• Streamline operations
• Respond quickly to changes
• Replace separate software systems
• Disadvantage -- expensive
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E-Commerce
• Needed to survive in global economy
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Supply-Chain Management
• Exchange of information with suppliers
• Reduce costs
• Improve quality
• Speed the delivery
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Lean Production
• A philosophy and business strategy of
manufacturing without waste
• Lowers costs
• Increases competitive position
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Just in Time Inventory (JIT)
• Manufacture “just in time” to fill orders
• Reduces:
–Raw materials inventory
–Finished goods inventory
–Storage costs
–Handling costs
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TQM : Total Quality Management
• Goal to provide customers with superior
products and services
• Continually set higher goals for quality
• International Organization for
Standardization (ISO)
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E1-15A
a. _______________________________
involves the exchange of information with
suppliers to reduce costs, improve quality,
and speed delivery of goods and services
from suppliers to the company and its
customers.
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E1-15A
c. The _______________________________
was enacted to restore trust in publicly
traded corporations, their management,
their financial statements, and their auditors.
d. The goal of ___________________________
is to meet customers’ expectations by
providing them with superior products and
services by eliminating defects and waste
throughout the value chain.
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E1-15A
e. Most of the costs of adopting ERP, expanding
into a foreign market, or improving quality
are incurred in the _______; but most of the
benefits occur in the _______.
f. ________________ is the time between
buying raw materials and selling the finished
products.
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E1-15A
g. _______________________________ serves
the information needs of people in
accounting as well as people in marketing
and in the warehouse.
h. Firms adopt _______________ to conduct
business on the Internet.
i. Firms acquire the _________________
certification to demonstrate their
commitment to quality.

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E1-15A
j. ___________________ is a philosophy that
embraces the concept that the lower the
company’s waste is, the lower the company’s
costs will be.
k. Toyota first pioneered an inventory philosophy
in which a product is manufactured
______________ to fill customer orders;
companies are able to substantially reduce the
quantity of raw materials and finished goods
inventories. 55

E1-15A
m. Toyota first pioneered an inventory
philosophy in which a product is
manufactured ______________ to fill
customer orders; companies are able to
substantially reduce the quantity of raw
materials and finished goods inventories.
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E1-15A
n. ____________________________ is a
management philosophy of delighting
customers with superior products and
services by continually setting higher goals
and improving the performance of every
business function.
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End of Chapter 1
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