This document discusses the characteristics, objectives, functions, tools, techniques, advantages and disadvantages of management accounting. It outlines that management accounting provides financial information for decision making, cause and effect analysis, and achieving objectives through tools like budgetary control, standard costing, and marginal costing. The advantages include increased efficiency, effective planning and communication, while disadvantages include dependence on basic records and resistance to change.
This document discusses the characteristics, objectives, functions, tools, techniques, advantages and disadvantages of management accounting. It outlines that management accounting provides financial information for decision making, cause and effect analysis, and achieving objectives through tools like budgetary control, standard costing, and marginal costing. The advantages include increased efficiency, effective planning and communication, while disadvantages include dependence on basic records and resistance to change.
This document discusses the characteristics, objectives, functions, tools, techniques, advantages and disadvantages of management accounting. It outlines that management accounting provides financial information for decision making, cause and effect analysis, and achieving objectives through tools like budgetary control, standard costing, and marginal costing. The advantages include increased efficiency, effective planning and communication, while disadvantages include dependence on basic records and resistance to change.
• providing financial information *increase in effeciency *effective planning • cause & effect analysis * performance evaluation *profit maximation • use of special technic and concept * reliability * elimination of westage • decision making *effective communication *employee morale • no fixed convension * control & co-ordination • achivement of objectives • improving effeciency • forcasting • providing of information& not decision objectives and function of mgt., accounting disadvantages • precentation of data * dependance for basic records • aid of planning and forcasting * personal basis • help in organising * mgt., accounting is only a tool • decision making * mgt., accounting provides only a data • effective control * broad bases scope • communication of mgt., policy * recistence to chnge • incorporation of non-financial information * costly to instal • co-ordination * evalutionery stage • motivating employees tools and technic of mgt., ➢ financial policy & accounting ➢ analysis of financial statement ➢ historical cost accounting ➢ budgetary control ➢ standerd costing ➢ marginal costing ➢ mgt., information system ➢ other tool ➢ * decision accounts ➢ * revaluation accounts