Solution Manual Chapter 11 Atkinson Management Accounting

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Chapter 11 |Financial |[pic] | |Control | | QUESTIONS 11-1 Financial control is the formal evaluation of some financial facet of an organization or a responsibility center to assess organization and management performance. Financial control uses financial numbers, such as costs or expenses, as broad indices of performance or measures of the resources used by a process or organizational unit. Financial control may involve comparing actual financial numbers with targets from a standard or budget to derive variances. 11-2 Internal financial control is the application of financial control tools to evaluate organization units. The resulting information is used inside the organization and is not provided to outsiders. External financial control is the application of financial control tools by outside analysts to evaluate various aspects of organization performance. 11-3 Decentralization is the delegation of decision-making authority from people at higher levels in the organization to front line decision makers of the organization. 11-4 Control refers to the systems and tools that an organization uses to motivate decentralized decision makers to pursue the organization’s goals. 11-5 A responsibility center is an organizational unit for which a manager is held accountable. The manager is asked to run the center to achieve the objectives of the larger organization. 11-6 A cost center is a responsibility unit that is evaluated based on its ability to control costs relative to some standard. Revenues or investment level are not controlled. 11-7 A revenue center is assigned the

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