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Many businesses use some form of management accounting, whose functions include budgets, cost allocation methods and cost-volume-profit or break-even analysis. Strategic management accounting goes ...

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To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. For the last few years, the murmurs have been growing. The ...

Let’s set the scene. A privately held company’s longtime controller gives notice. With only one other accounting person on staff, the owner is left scrambling for a fix until a new controller can be ...

Accounting is a comprehensive system for collecting, recording, classifying, summarizing, interpreting, and communicating financial information. It is often referred to as the language of business as ...

“Accountants” and “future” are rarely mentioned in the same sentence these days. I argue, however, that companies that don’t fully appreciate and leverage their accountants — in terms of being the ...

Accounting is the language of business. Its processes use numbers to tell a story about how your company is earning and spending money. An accounting information system provides the syntax that allows ...

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Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...