PART A: What Management Accountants Do? 

1-Jobs for Management Accountants: Undertake a search for management accounting jobs on Google.

List examples of positions that could be filled by management accountants.

2-Management accountants are often hired as consultants for a contracted period.

List the most common roles that management accountants play.

3-Explain how financial and managerial accounting interface. Is one more important than another?

Explain the rationale for your answer.

4-Describe the personal characteristics you would find to be effective as a management accountant.

5-External Focus of Management Accounting: Historically, finance professionals have tended to concentrate internally within their organization and rather ignored the external environment. Strategic management accounting (SMA) has begun to change this emphasis and many of the techniques. Management accounting have strategic management accounting elements. Explain at least four issues or concerns that have an external focus from the Management Accountants.