What do you understand by 'Management Reporting'? What is its need in a company?

CS Executive · Corporate and Management Accounting · PYQS · December 2018
What do you understand by 'Management Reporting'? What is its need in a company?

Answer & Explanation:

Management Reporting System is imprecise or inadequate, and facts to take into account the actuality of the real-life situation, the de facto points of decision-making, and the recipient personnel, the monitoring system becomes open ended and ineffective. Designers of the reporting system must, therefore, take into account the impact on it of such constraints. Need of Management Reporting (i) Selecting appropriately and correctly using the right system to develop and deliver reports. (ii) Manipulating data in order to display the best metrics to make better business decisions and understand the company's current position. (iii) Implementing an inefficient accounting close process that does not allow for timely report delivery to stakeholders. (iv) Ensuring the integrity of the data. (v) Adopting management reporting processes at the incorrect stakeholder levels throughout the organization.

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