Differences Between Financial Accounting And Management Accounting

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Part 1 Read Chapter 3 in Magal’s textbook slides and answer the following questions. 1. Explain the difference between financial accounting and management accounting Financial accounting deals with the recording of the financial impact of various business processes, for reporting to external sources, ie the SEC. Management accounting is reporting for internal use only. 2. Briefly describe the key processes in financial accounting General ledger, which is used to record the financial effects of business processes. Accounts receivable, which is used in the fulfillment process. Accounts payable, which is used in the procurement process. Asset accounting, which is used to record data related to the purchase, use, and disposal of capital…show more content…
They are a hierarchy, with client at the top containing one or more companies, and each company containing one or more business area, plant or segment. 4. What are charts of accounts and the general ledger? How are they related? The chart of accounts (COA) is an ordered listing of accounts that make up the company’s general ledger (GL). The GL has all the accounts defined by the COA for each company within the enterprise. 5. What are subsidiary ledgers and reconciliation accounts? How are they related? Subsidiary accounts and reconciliation accounts are for recording accounting transactions that do not appear directly in the general ledger. For example, customer accounts are not tracked in the GL, they are in a subledger. A reconciliation account is where the subledger data is recorded in the GL. 6. What is an accounting document? What role does it serve? The accounting document is a record of the effect of a transaction for a business process, containing a header with detail information about the document itself and line item detailing the transaction. The accounting document allows for standardization of types of transactions and proper tracking of business transactions. 7. What is the purpose of cost objects? Provide several examples of cost

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