Businesses both large and small, public and private, for profit and nonprofit, are driven by numbers. Whether it's tracking sales, managing inventory or making payroll, smart managers know that ...

Many businesses use some form of management accounting, whose functions include budgets, cost allocation methods and cost-volume-profit or break-even analysis. Strategic management accounting goes ...

Effective management accounting practices can improve decision-making in organizations, which need sound fundamentals but also speed when trying to decide which strategic paths to follow. In short, ...

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Timothy Li is a consultant, accountant, and finance manager with an MBA from USC and over 15 years of corporate finance experience. Timothy has helped provide CEOs and CFOs with deep-dive analytics, ...

It’s not uncommon for someone who starts a marketing business to have limited accounting knowledge. After all, marketing and accounting are often seen as having opposite functions—the former dealing ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Companies can find new ways to grow through forward-looking ...

Let’s set the scene. A privately held company’s longtime controller gives notice. With only one other accounting person on staff, the owner is left scrambling for a fix until a new controller can be ...