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Section 1.1: Aim Of Report. This Report Will Briefly Go

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Section 1.1: Aim of Report

This report will briefly go over three separate but connected topics, the first being the past and present role of a management accountant and how changes in the industry will then affect the future role of a management accountant. From this, the report will evaluate the adoption of strategic management accounting and its effect on performance, then finally how this course will prepare me for a career in management accounting.

Section 1.2: Introduction

Management Accounting can and has been defined as many different things since its creation. It’s definition changing with the ever evolving role of the management accountant. The term management accounting was created in the 1950’s by the Anglo-American …show more content…

This is one of the fundamental factors that have drastically changed the role of the traditional accountant to the role we now acknowledge as a Management accountant.
Section 2.2: Factors of Change

These factors of change have been outlined as Technology, Globalisation and Accounting scandals by Hopper, T et al (2007). These factors of change have both positive and negative effects on the role of a management accountant. These however are not the only factors that will affect change.

Section 2.2.1: Technology

“Advances in information technology have been noted as a key force in changing management accounting.” (CIMA,2015)

The use of technology has now become a necessity within the industry as it is used to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the information gathered due to less human interaction with the calculating of the required quantitative figures.

“Accounting technology has eliminated the number cruncher sitting behind a desk working on people’s taxes and has allowed the accountant to find new challenges with much more to offer than decades ago when they relied on an abacus for a calculating tool” (Kruglinski,2009)

One of the biggest forms of accounting technology that has impacted the role of the management accountant is that of “Enterprise resource planning

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