Managerial Accounting, Flexible Budget, Balanced Scorecard

  1. How is the flexible budget used within the variance analysis system to evaluate effectiveness and efficiency?
  2. Explain the role of managerial accounting in reducing agency problems and achieving goal congruence.
  3. How using ROI might motivate managers to reject profitable investments? How the sub-optimization problem might affect investors? Use the Balanced
    Scorecard Institute website ( https://balancedscorecard.org/) to answer the following questions:
  • What are the four perspectives of the balanced scorecard?
  • What are examples of industries and businesses that use the balanced scorecard?