Cornerstones of Cost Accounting 1st Edition by Don Hansen,Maryanne Mowen

Exercise 4

Financial Accounting versus Cost Management
Lily Shultz is a junior majoring in hotel and restaurant management. She wants to work for a large hotel chain with the goal of eventually managing a hotel. She is considering the possibility of taking a course in either financial accounting or cost management. Before choosing, however, she has asked you to provide her with some information about the advantages that each course offers.
Required:
Prepare a letter advising Lily about the differences and similarities between financial accounting and cost management. Describe the advantages each might offer the manager of a hotel.