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Financial accounting deals with the reporting of financialinformation to parties external to an organization, such asregulators, stockholder, and creditors. Managerial accounting dealswith providing information to parties within an organization,mostly managers or decision makers.For example, in financial accounting, one would produce reportsthat show how an entity has performed in the past. This informationis often provided to owners, creditors, tax authorities, andregulators. It emphasizes objectivity and verifiability and mustfollow certain accounting rules such as Generally AcceptedAccounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial ReportingStandards (IFRS).On the other hand, in managerial accounting, one producesreports to managers in areas within the entity dealing withplanning, controlling and decision-making. The emphasis here is onmaking future decisions.

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What we are concerned with here isrelevance to the future operations of the entity. Managerialaccounting does not necessarily have to follow accounting rulessuch as GAAP or IFRS, although it often does.Further, from reporting point of view financial accountingfocuses on profitability whereas managerial accounting focuses onbudgeting and other internal aspects and accounting particularlypertaining to costs.