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Ep. 66: John Stretch - Stakeholder Capitalism

IMA's Count Me

But as you and I know, the financial accounting systems and not always very helpful and sometimes a bit contradictory, accounting by its nature is a conservative discipline. It's intended to be there all the influences of the income tax and the statutory financial reporting and the stock exchanges and so on.

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BONUS | Celebrating 100,000 CMAs

IMA's Count Me

The impetus behind that was that rightly so they believe that management accounting was a distinct profession from public accounting and that the competencies needed inside organizations were different from public accounting. There was quite a bit of overlap. We have our research reports, you know, we did a recent report on RPA.