QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS FROM FINANCIAL
MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING 20TH
EDITION BY JAN WILLIAMS HAILEY
COLLEGE OF BANKING AND
FINANCE.
,CHAPTER 1
1. Award:
Managerial accounting information is designed primarily to assist investors and creditors in
deciding how to allocate scarce resources.
True
False
Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 01-01 Discuss
accounting as the language of business
and the role of accounting information in
making economic decisions.
2. Award:
Information provided to decision makers in an organization is comprised only of the accounting
information generated by the organization’s information system.
True
False
Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 01-02 Discuss the
significance of information systems in
generating reliable accounting
information and understand the five
components of internal control.
,3. Award:
All internal control systems need to be monitored.
True
False
Difficulty: 2 Medium Learning Objective: 01-02 Discuss the
significance of information systems in
generating reliable accounting
information and understand the five
components of internal control.
4. Award:
A data analytics system is the integrated management of core business processes that an
organization can use to collect, store, manage, and interpret data across a wide range of business
activities.
True
False
Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 01-02 Discuss the
significance of information systems in
generating reliable accounting
information and understand the five
components of internal control.
, 5. Award:
Management accounting information is oriented toward the future while financial accounting
information is historical in nature.
True
False
Learning Objective:
01-03 Explain the
importance of
financial accounting
information for
external parties—
primarily investors
and creditors—in
terms of the
objectives and the
characteristics of
that information.
Learning Objective:
01-04 Explain the
importance of
accounting
information for
internal parties—
primarily
management—in
terms of the
objectives and the
characteristics of
that information.