The Controllership Series: Managerial Accounting Basics & Costs

Overview

Managerial accounting provides economic & financial information for managers & other internal users. Managerial & Financial Accounting have similarities & differences. Each field of accounting deals with the economic events of a business. Both managerial & financial accounting require that a company's economic events be quantified & communicated to interested parties.

This another course in our series on the controller’s role. The controller’s role encompasses many traditional functions. Within this segment of our controllership series, we discuss the area of managerial accounting & the basic concepts that surround this discipline as it primarily relates to cost accounting issues.