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ACC 433 Managerial Accounting
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Website review: https://www.imanet.org
Who and what is the Institute of Management Accountants?
The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) is a business organization built around the educational, development, and support of accountants around the world. Providing individuals, the opportunity to expand their focused field along with gathering practical knowledge, skills, and support to succeed in their profession. The IMA is a global association for approximately 140,000 members in over 150 countries and currently holds 350+ professional and student chapters. These professions consist of academic institutions, non-profits, public & private companies. The IMA’s mission is to provide the highest ethical and business practices for a community of professionals with forums for connection of knowledge sharing, research, and education development. Their focused areas are member services, professional advocacy, business agility, and performance. Through this focus and mission, they vision to be a leading resource for accountants and financial professionals in business. The IMA provides certifications that can expand the knowledge of management in business by challenging individuals in an exam process to test their understanding of the different areas of business. They currently offer 2 different
certification programs which are Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and Certified in Strategy and Competitive Analysis (CSCA), which is a second building block after the CMA program. What is the CMA Certifications?
The IMA is well known for their Certified Management Accountant (CMA) program that aligns with business structures used today. It provides the knowledge and skillset for financial planning, analytics, control, and decision support that are crucial for a successful business. Individuals are challenged with a rigorous exam process that only has a 50% pass rate each year. There are 2 parts to the certification, CMA
Part 1is on Financial Planning, Performance, and Analytics and CMA Part 2 is over Strategic Financial Management. These 2-part exams require an extensive amount of preparation and studying of up to 18 Page | 1
ACC 433 Managerial Accounting
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months to even be ready. For the price of $495 per exam part, you definitely want to be ready because the fees are non-refundable if failed. Below is a breakdown of the exam requirements, benefits, and continued
responsibility requirements.
CMA Exam Requirements (per CMA handbook)
Having an active membership in IMA
A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university or a related professional certification
Complete two continuous years of professional experience in management accounting or financial management. This requirement may be completed prior to or within seven years of passing the examination.
Passing Parts 1 and 2 of the CMA exams.
The benefits of getting a CMA can make a big difference in an accounting career, listed below are just a few:
Global recognition – with IMA being a worldwide association your CMA will be recognized globally.
Career advancement – Having a CMA certification provides better and quicker advancements within a company or better career opportunities allowing to stand out and be noticed quicker.
Higher pay – On average a CMA certified employee can make 50% more than the non-CMA employee. The median pay for the 2020 salary study was $105,000 – $118,500 per year for just the United States. CMA can also get bonuses on top of their annual salary. Once the CMA has been completed and certification has been received the member must comply
with the IMA ethical standards, complete Continued Education of 30 hours with 2 hours to be ethics, along with membership fees done annually to maintain a CMA active status. Page | 2
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Present the following:
Definition of managerial accounting
Role of managerial accounting and the management accountant in a business or organization
Ethical issues/concerns for the management accountant
General description of at least three managerial accounting techniques available and their application within a business or organization
Part II (Four to six double-spaced pages)
Select at least three of the five topics identified below:
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Costing Methods
Capital Investment Decision Techniques
Budgeting
Quality Control
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BTN 18-3 Managerial accounting professionals follow a code of ethics. As a member of the Institute of Management Accountants, the
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Required
1. Read the Statement of Ethical Professional Practice posted at IMAnet.org. (Under "Career Resources" select "Ethics Center," and
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2. What four overarching ethical principles underlie the IMA's statement?
3. Describe the courses of action the IMA recommends in resolving ethical confilicts.
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a.
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b.
In All these accounting
c.
Management accounting
d.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement
or answers the question.
1. Which phrase best describes the current role of the managerial
accountant?
a. Managerial accountants prepare the financial statements
for an organization.
b. Managerial accountants facilitate the decision-making
process within an organization.
Managerial accountants make the key decisions within
an organization.
d. Managerial accountants are primarily information
collectors.
e. Managerial Accountants are solely staff advisors in an
organization.
2. An example of qualitative data is:
a. product cost
b. customer satisfaction
c. net income
d. inventory cost
e. net worth.
3. Product and service costing information is prepared for
a. manufacturing companies with inventory.
b. merchandising companies.
c. service providers.
d. each of the other four answers..
c. manufacturing companies without inventory.
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The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC, 1998) in its Statement on ManagementAccounting Concepts, has underlies all concepts that concerns with the managementaccounting field of work. This statement had identified that the field of organisationalactivity encompassed by management accounting has developed through four managementaccounting evolutionary stages.
Following that, on 28 March 2000, Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz has highlighted inher speech at the Venture Capital Europe-Asia 2000 Conference that:
“The fundamental forces for a new shape of Malaysian economy is arising fromglobalisation, advances in technology and greater reliance on knowledge for valuecreation
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Can managerial accounting play an important role in a nonprofit organization? Explain your answer.
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1. Write about three accounting competence development areas that would be important for personally as a manager?
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Which of the following professional certificates is considered to be the most relevant for dealing with cost management issues?
Multiple Choice
The Certified Public Accountant (CPA), which is monitored differently for each state in the US.
The Certificate in Management Accounting (CMA), which is administered through the Institute of Management Accountants
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), since its program focuses on the broadest range of topics and responsibilities for financial analysis
The CPA, CMA, and CFA are viewed as equally relevant, since all three require an exam, as well as specific background and experience requirements.
None of these answers are correct
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Organizational charts ________.
Group of answer choices
list the salaries of all employees
outline the strategic goals of the organization
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Write the correct answer for the following questions
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List the components of external environment and describe their relationship with the business firm. (3%).
Describe each the following innovation process.(2%).
Analytical planning
Resource organization
Implementation
Commercial application
What is the difference between idea and opportunity? (2%).
What are methods used for generating business ideas? (2%).
Describe each of the three basic forms of business ownership. (3%).
a. proprietorship
b. partnership
c. corporation
7. Define the following terms.(2 points)
a) Entrepreneurship
b) Entrapreneurship
8. What is the difference between individual entrepreneur and organizational entrepreneur? (2 points)
9. List out at least four importance of small businesses. (2 points)
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You tell your brother that your company will report earnings significantly above financial analysts’ estimates.
You see others take home office supplies for personal use. As an intern, you do the same thing, assuming that this is a “perk.”
At a company-paid conference on e-commerce, you skip the afternoon session and go sightseeing.
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