Corporate law. Incorporation is the formation of a new corporation (a corporation being a legal entity that is effectively recognized as a person under the law). The corporation may be a business, a non-profit organization, sports club, or a government of a new city or town.
Managerial accounting involves collecting, analyzing, and reporting information about the operations and finances of a business. These reports are generally directed to the managers of a business, rather than to any external entities, such as shareholders or lenders. The functions of managerial accounting include: 1  Margin analysis. 2  Breakeven analysis. 3  Constraint analysis. 4  Target costing. 5  Inventory valuation. 6  Trend analysis. 7  Transaction analysis. 8  Capital budgeting analysis.
A function of management accounting in such organizations is to work closely with the IT department to provide IT cost transparency. Given the above, one view of the progression of the accounting and finance career path is that financial accounting is a stepping stone to management accounting.