MBAA 604: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
FOUNDATIONS
◍ Economics. Answer: the study of how society manages its scarce
resources
◍ Scarcity. Answer: A situation in which unlimited wants exceed the
limited resources available to fulfill those wants
◍ Managerial economics. Answer: The study of how to direct scarce
resources in the way that most efficiently achieves a managerial goal.
◍ strategic behavior. Answer: self-interested behavior that takes into
account the reactions of others
◍ game theory. Answer: the study of how people behave in strategic
situations
◍ quantitative methods. Answer: methods that seek to obtain
information about the social world that is already in or can be converted
to numeric form
◍ Managers. Answer: The people responsible for supervising the use of
an organization's resources to meet its goals
FOUNDATIONS
◍ Economics. Answer: the study of how society manages its scarce
resources
◍ Scarcity. Answer: A situation in which unlimited wants exceed the
limited resources available to fulfill those wants
◍ Managerial economics. Answer: The study of how to direct scarce
resources in the way that most efficiently achieves a managerial goal.
◍ strategic behavior. Answer: self-interested behavior that takes into
account the reactions of others
◍ game theory. Answer: the study of how people behave in strategic
situations
◍ quantitative methods. Answer: methods that seek to obtain
information about the social world that is already in or can be converted
to numeric form
◍ Managers. Answer: The people responsible for supervising the use of
an organization's resources to meet its goals