Chapter 16: Q1TI_2 (page 865)
Identify the following characteristics as primarily related to financial accounting (FA) or managerial accounting (MA):
2. Helps in planning and controlling operations.
Planning means choosing the goal and setting up the steps and the correct answer is managerial accounting.
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Applying ethical standards
Ava Borzi is the new controller for Halo Software, Inc. which develops and sells education software. Shortly before the December 31 fiscal year-end, Jeremy Busch, the company president, asks Borzi how things look for the year-end numbers. He is not happy to learn that earnings growth may be below 9% for the first time in the company’s five-year history. Busch explains that financial analysts have again predicted a 9% earnings growth for the company and that he does not intend to disappoint them. He suggests that Borzi talk to the assistant controller, who can explain how the previous controller dealt with such situations. The assistant controller suggests the following strategies:
a. Persuade suppliers to postpone billing \(18,000 in invoices until January 1.
b. Record as sales \)120,000 in certain software awaiting sale that is held in a public warehouse.
c. Delay the year-end closing a few days into January of the next year so that some of the next year’s sales are included in this year’s sales.
d. Reduce the estimated Bad Debts Expense from 3% of Sales Revenue to 2%, given the company’s continued strong performance.
e. Postpone routine monthly maintenance expenditures from December to January.
Requirements
1. Which of these suggested strategies are inconsistent with IMA standards?
2. How might these inconsistencies affect the company’s creditors and stockholders?
3. What should Borzi do if Busch insists that she follow all of these suggestions?
Identifying ethical standards
The Institute of Management Accountants’ Statement of Ethical Professional Practice requires managerial accountants to meet standards regarding competence, confidentiality, integrity, and credibility. Consider the following situations. Which standard(s) is(are) violated in each situation?
d. You failed to read the detailed specifications of a new accounting software package that you asked your company to purchase. After it is installed, you are surprised that it is incompatible with some of your company’s older accounting software.
Understanding today’s business environment
Match the following terms to the appropriate statement. Some terms may be used more than once, and some terms may not be used at all.
E-commerce Just-in-time management (JIT)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) Total quality management (TQM)
a. A management system that focuses on maintaining lean inventories while producing products as needed by the customer.
b. A philosophy designed to integrate all organizational areas in order to provide customers with superior products and services while meeting organizational objectives.
c. Integrates all of a company’s functions, departments, and data into a single system.
d. Adopted by firms to conduct business on the Internet
List the three inventory accounts used by manufacturing companies, and describe each.
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