Management Accounting

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The paper shows how structural management theories have influenced the development of management accounting systems within a given organization. The paper also shows how behavioral theories, such as human relations and human resources, have further refined management accounting systems. The paper texplains how today's management accounting systems have thus grown from ad hoc number crunching to complex, multidimensional tools for analysis and decision-making.

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"Management accounting, by its very nature, is intertwined with organizational structure. Whereas financial accounting is designed with structural consistency in mind to assist the external stakeholders from whom those statements are produced, management accounting's structural form is dictated more by the needs of the internal stakeholders. As firms devise their management accounting systems, those systems are inevitably influenced strongly by the underlying structures and beliefs of the firm itself. In that way, we can see how management theories, both structural and behavioral, can influence the development of management accounting systems within a given organization."

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