Question: Difference Between Managerial Accounting and Financial Accounting? 

Answer: Financial acconting is geared to wards users of financial information that are external to the company, e.g. shareholders, banks etc.\n\nManagerial accounting is geared towards internal users, e.g. determining product/customer/distribution channel profitability, and how best to improve that.\n\nShort answer...
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