2. Management accounting’s expanding role
with enterprise performance management (EPM)
Enterprise performance management can be defined as
the integration of multiple methods (such as strategy
maps, balanced scorecards, performance measures,
driver-based budgeting, lean management, and customer
relationship management) to achieve the executive team’s
strategy, improve control, and increase financial profits—
all through making better decisions. A major part of this
is that each method is embedded with business analytics,
such as segmentation and correlation analysis and especially predictive analytics. The output of a management
accounting system is always the input to use in gaining
insights and managing activities and operations.
A key example of applying management accounting to
EPM is strategy execution. In this area the popular
method is a strategy map—used to document and visualize the linkages of strategic objectives that realize the
strategy—and the strategy map’s companion balanced
scorecard. The scorecard’s key performance indicators
(KPIs) and its cascaded operational performance measures