Accounting and its major fields, MA and FA, are undergoing major changes, one of which seems to be a
shift towards the convergence of MA and FA, the focus of this paper. The ultimate purpose of MA and FA is
the same. This includes evaluation of past performance for informative and accountability purposes, and
plans for the future to make rational capital allocation decisions. The recent trend shift of MA from
history-based short-term planning and control to future-oriented strategic planning and control, and FA
from historical cost accounting for stewardship purposes to fair value accounting for valuation purposes
and decision making, as well as increased transparency for broader stewardship have planted the seeds for
the convergence between MA and FA. Why convergence was not a clear direction earlier can be explained
by the previous lack of a key element, i.e. information technology that could facilitate, catalyze, motivate,
or even enable the convergence first in the technical and technological domain and later in the behavioral
and organizational domain. Our conceptual framing bridges the gap between the concepts of MA and FA