Maximize Profits - Answers A common objective of business owners is to...
Maximize self interest - Answers A common objective of employees, suppliers, and customers
is to...
No. It consists of formal, organized, and tangible records, as well as informal, non-tangible data.
- Answers Is a company's information system a single, integrated system?
Control system - Answers All of the mechanisms that help align employee interests with
maximizing the organization's value, like performance measures, promotions, demotions,
termination, video cameras, internal auditors, etc.
Decision making and control - Answers What are the two purposes of internal accounting
systems?
Broad - Answers Should a firm's integral accounting system be examined from a narrow or
broad perspective?
Internal - Answers Are internal or external accounting reports generated more frequently?
Benchmarking - Answers A technique where a company compares its performance against the
best firms, determines how those firms achieved their superior performance, and uses the
knowledge to improve their own performance.
Control - Answers Aligning the interests of employees with maximizing the value of the firm.
Single - Answers Are multiple or single accounting systems used more often?
Relevance - Answers In contrast to financial accounting, the emphasis in management
accounting is on...
Economic Darwinism - Answers "If a firm is successful, things should not be fixed unless they
are clearly broken"
opportunity cost - Answers The benefit forgone as a result of choosing one course of action
rather than another
Historical costs - Answers The resources expended for actions actually undertaken.
Sunk costs - Answers expenditures incurred in the past that cannot be recovered.
Fixed costs - Answers The costs incurred when there is no production
Marginal cost - Answers The cost of producing one more unit
Variable costs - Answers the additional costs incurred when output is expanded