24 Synthesis of Financial and management accounting
The point which emerges from this approach, and which deserves further consideration, is that it is inadmissible to look at financial accounting quite apart from management accounting. The test for consistency can only be adequately executed if the two are wholly integrated, and all costing data, budgets data, and the rest, can be studied in conjunction with the financial data to be audited. This is one of the ways in which automatic data processing can strengthen internal control: the control of all figures can be far more effective because they are more detailed and more sophisticated.