This document discusses responsibility accounting, which is a management control system that delegates responsibility to responsibility centers. It measures the performance of these centers. The key points are: 1. Responsibility accounting identifies managers responsible for performance and provides motivational and planning benefits. 2. Objectives include determining a division's contribution, evaluating manager performance, and motivating managers to meet organization goals. 3. Responsibility centers include cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, and investment centers. Performance is reported using budgets, actuals, and variances. 4. Issues include interdepartmental conflicts, delayed reporting, and overloading of information. Responsibility accounting should not be relied on completely but rather direct attention to