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So far, we have considered financial accounting, which is concerned with recording all historical financial transactions and presenting them to shareholders and other interested parties, usually in the form of a set of annual accounts. As a result, many people see the role of financial accounting as that of a steward who looks after and reports on the financial affairs of the business.
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© 1993 Sally Messenger and Humphrey Shaw
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Messenger, S., Shaw, H. (1993). Cost Behaviour and Control. In: Financial Management. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13080-1_12
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