What determines how much attention, respect, and use Management Accounting receives in an organization?

Related Subquestions: What factors can help or hinder the emergence of Management Accounting in an organization? Are certain types of organizations more likely to use Management Accounting? Explain. Why does Management Accounting sometimes get relegated to a secondary role behind Financial Accounting in an organization? Considering current organizational factors and factors found in organizational environments, would you expect the attention given to Management Accounting to be on the rise, on the decline, or staying relatively stable? Why? Should Management Accounting in an organization be kept as a set of separate activities or should it be seamlessly integrated into the internal activities of the organization? Why? What does the short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term future hold for Management Accounting? Has Management Accounting changed much in the last three decades? Explain. What other functions or operations in the typical organization does Management Accounting have to interface with and how does that affect Management Accounting's use in the organization? As an organization progresses through various stages of its organizational life cycle, does its need for Management Accounting change? Does the size of an organization and/or the size and scope of the organization's operations affect its need for Management Accounting? Explain.