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1. A vision statement is a theoretical description of what an organisation should become.
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2. An organisational vision is a short-term plan for maximising financial results.
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3. Most organisations have one stakeholder.
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4. Organisational core competencies unrelated to the organisational vision.
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,5. Organisational strategies are the tactics that managers use to take advantage of core c
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ompetencies while working towards the organisational vision.
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6. Most organisations have databases that contain information collected formally or i
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nformally from internal sources only.
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7. Desirable employee behaviour can be motivated by tying employee performance e
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valuation and pay to long-term or short-term results.
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8. Organisational information systems only collect accounting information.
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Learning objective 1.2 ~ Discuss the role of cost and management accounting information in
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, 9. Cost accounting information is used for both management accounting and financial a
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10. Management accounting is the process of gathering, summarising and reporting f
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inancial and non-financial information used internally to make decisions.
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11. Intellectual capital is a type of financial resource that is captured by the organisation’s i
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12. It is easy to differentiate between internal and external reports.
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