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CHAPTER 1
The Role of Accounting Information in
Ethical Management Decision Making
CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Describe the process of strategic management and decision making.


2. Identify the types of control systems that managers use.


3. Explain the role of accounting information in strategic management.


4. Explain the information systems and information that is relevant for decision making.


5. Describe how business risk affects management decision making.


6. Appreciate how biases affect management decision making.


7. Determine how managers make higher-quality decisions.


8. Explain the importance of ethical decision making.




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TRUE-FALSE STATEMENTS

1. A vision statement is one way to clarify an organization’s basic purpose and ideology.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the process of strategic management and decision making.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


2. Most managers follow a standard template and format when writing a vision statement.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the process of strategic management and decision making.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


3. A vision statement helps employees understand how to deal with various stakeholder groups.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the process of strategic management and decision making.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


4. Organizational core competencies are the tactics that managers use to take advantage of the
vision.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the process of strategic management and decision making.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


5. Accounting information is the only thing managers need to make financial decisions.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Explain the role of accounting information in strategic management.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge

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6. Accounting information is used to monitor operations by comparing actual results to planned
results.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Explain the role of accounting information in strategic management.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


7. Accounting information cannot be used to motivate employee behavior.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Explain the role of accounting information in strategic management.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


8. Cost accounting information is used for both external reporting and internal decision making.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Explain the role of accounting information in strategic management.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


9. Cost accounting information, such as the valuation of ending inventory, is shown on external
financial statements.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Explain the role of accounting information in strategic management.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


10. Because accounting information is highly objective and quantitative in nature, it is not subject to
uncertainties or management bias.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Identify the types of control systems that managers use.
Learning Objective: Appreciate how biases affect management decision making.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge
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11. Uncertainty and bias reduce decision quality.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Identify the types of control systems that managers use.
Learning Objective: Appreciate how biases affect management decision making.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


12. Uncertainties cause decision makers to ignore weaknesses in a preferred course of action.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Identify the types of control systems that managers use.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


13. Uncertainties and biases do not affect external financial reports, because they are based on
objective standards.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Identify the types of control systems that managers use.
Learning Objective: Appreciate how biases affect management decision making.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


14. Because we can never completely remove biases and uncertainty from decision-making,
higher-quality decision processes are often imprecise.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Identify the types of control systems that managers use.
Learning Objective: Appreciate how biases affect management decision making.
CPA: Management Accounting
Bloomcode: Knowledge


15. Higher-quality decisions result from higher-quality information, reports, and decision-making
processes.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
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