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Staffing and organizing the management accounting function at large financial institutions
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The Journal of Bank Cost & Management Accounting
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January 1, 1998
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Copyright informationCopyright National Association for Bank Cost & Management Accounting 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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By Woody Alexander*
This study will lay out some of the considerations financial institutions have faced in putting a management accounting group in place. Management accounting, as the name implies, is charged with providing financial decision support information to managers at all levels of the enterprise. A sister function, financial accounting, is primarily charged with an external reporting of financial information to stockholders, regulators, and security analysts. MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING FUNCTIONS Some of the responsibilities assigned to the management accounting organization are the following: Profitability reporting for organizations, products, and customers Profit planning and ...