The Use of Managerial Accounting Tools in Toyota Motor Corporation
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ACCT 804
The Use of Managerial Accounting Tools in Toyota Motor Corporation
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ACCT 804

Managerial Accounting in Toyota
Introduction
Modern business environment involves high complexity and growing threat of new entrants, which together make potential challenges to business firms today regardless of the industry they involve. A company cannot survive the current market competition unless the management gets adequate information constantly. The concept of management accounting or managerial accounting is of great importance in this context because it can assist the top management to make sound decisions on various matters. This accounting branch embraces accounting systems, methods, and techniques that can help the organization maximize its profits or minimize losses. Scholars opine that management accounting is the presentation of accounting information in a way that would assist the top management to create potential policies for managing its daily operations. Management accounting is not confined to financial management information, but it is about comprehensive information about overall organizational activities. It is evident that financial management alone is not capable of providing necessary information for performing managerial functions effectively. In contrast, management accounting is able to provide key information about cost, profits, and factors which are useful for the management to discharge their functions effectively. Management accounting can be considered as an extension of the management aspects of the cost accounting, and it is based on the principles of both cost accounting and financial accounting. It seems that management accounting is relevant to fast growing sectors