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Managers can make business decisions on the output level based on this analysis in order to maximize the profit of the firm. Marginal Analysis is considered the one of the chief tools in managerial economics which involves comparison between marginal benefits and marginal costs to come up with optimal variable decisions.
The term Grenzplankostenrechnung, often referred to as GPK, has been translated as either Marginal Planned Cost Accounting [1] or Flexible Analytic Cost Planning and Accounting. [2] The GPK methodology has become the standard for cost accounting in Germany [2] as a "result of the modern, strong controlling culture in German corporations". [3]
Accounting Perspectives (French: Perspectives comptables) is an academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of The Canadian Academic Accounting Association. Accounting Perspectives is a peer-reviewed journal publishing writing on the methods and practices of accounting research, policy, and education in Canada. [ 1 ]
Activity-based costing was first clearly defined in 1987 by Robert S. Kaplan and W. Bruns as a chapter in their book Accounting and Management: A Field Study Perspective. They initially focused on the manufacturing industry, where increasing technology and productivity improvements have reduced the relative proportion of the direct costs of ...
Prior to 1929 no group – public or private – was issuing or responsible for any accounting [4] standards. After the 1929 stock market crash, a call to regain the public's confidence and investor's trust was demanded and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 was passed resulting in public companies being supervised by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The term “marginal cost” may refer to an opportunity cost at the margin, or more narrowly to marginal pecuniary cost — that is to say marginal cost measured by forgone cash flow. Other marginal concepts include (but are not limited to): marginal physical product (sometimes also known as “marginal product”) marginal product of labor
Throughput Accounting reports what currently happens in business functions such as operations, distribution and marketing. It does not rely solely on GAAP's financial accounting reports (that still need to be verified by external auditors) and is thus relevant to current decisions made by management that affect the business now and in the future.
Managerial finance is the branch of finance that concerns itself with the financial aspects of managerial decisions. [1] Finance addresses the ways in which organizations (and individuals) raise and allocate monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects; Managerial finance, then, emphasizes the managerial application of these finance techniques and ...