Learn the principles of financial accounting, its importance, and how it functions to provide a clear picture of a company's financial health and compliance.

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 ...

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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 ...

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