Your Discussion should be a minimum of 250 words in length and not more than 450 words. Please include a word count. Following the APA standard, use references and in-text citations for the textbook and any other sources.

• Consider the role of management accounting in relation to the company for which you work (or have worked). Discuss how the principles of management accounting can be utilized. What specific managerial accounting activities would be useful?

Note: if you do not have work experience, you may select a company with which you are familiar and apply the discussion assignment to it. (250 minimum word count, references excluded)

Please paraphrase information from your sources (use at least 2 quality sources outside of the assigned textbooks; avoid direct quotations and "Wiki" sources) and include in-text citations and corresponding references in APA format.

In this course, I expect you to use the introduction, body, conclusion (IBC) format in your discussion, written, portfolio, and group activity assignments. Here are the details of the IBC format.

Introduction: restate the problem or question given in the assignment, include any background information, and provide a preview or plan of what you will be discussing in the body.

Body: use the MEAL plan to create paragraphs consisting of your own words along with paraphrased sentences and in-text citations to answer the question or problem provided in the introduction.

Conclusion: summarize the main points discussed in the body, discuss how they answer the problem or question, and make a recommendation or observation to end your response.

Please make sure your response follows APA guidelines and includes a reference list at the end. I suggest writing an outline before you begin to write. Please include at least one of the assigned textbooks as a reference.

Tables and graphs can be used as evidence in the body, but they should be used to support your analysis, which is written in your own words. You need to explain how and why the table and graph support the topic sentence of the paragraph.