The key purpose of management accounting is fulfilling the competitive needs of the company. A company's management accounting system is used to support the management processes of planning, controlling, and evaluating.
Business professionals use management accounting data in order to make informed decisions that benefit the organization, its owners and employees, the community, and the public at large. As a result, it is critical that these decision makers understand the ethics of good business and are committed to perform ethically.
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