Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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ISBN: 9781260417074
Author: HILTON, Ronald
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Introduction: Budgeting is a process of estimating future costs, revenues, and profits for business organizations. The actual results are compared with the budgeted results to know the variances and their causes.

To explain: The additional decision-making challenges presented to managers and their implications.

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The additional decision-making challenges presented to managers and their implications are as follows:

  • Reduction in paperwork by manifolds. Since e-commerce is growing, there will be no documentation maintained in papers and files, instead, the majority of the transactions will happen over the internet via new modes of electronic communication.
  • Information security will become a new issue, as a new mode of communication will have sensitive business data being transmitted electronically; hence, the security of the data will be of paramount importance
  • Also, the speed of the transactions will increase dramatically
  • Many other changes on the business transactional side will occur, like the use of e-budgeting and the completion of all budget-related activities online.

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