Job costing (known by some as job order costing) is fundamental to managerial accounting.

Cost accounting is a central element of managerial accounting.

Direction of scientific works is connected with research of methodology problems of accounting, managerial accounting and economic analysis.

Professor Gode's primary research areas include financial analysis, legal liability of firms, valuation, managerial accounting, and performance measurement.

Alan Richardson documents five reasons why managerial accounting has been dominated by financial accounting:

In the typical program, the core curriculum is focused on investment analysis, corporate finance and financial management / managerial accounting.

Nadejda Izvolskaya (financial analysis, managerial and financial accounting, business management).

Managerial finance is an interdisciplinary approach that borrows from both managerial accounting and corporate finance.

The most significant recent direction in managerial accounting is throughput accounting; which recognizes the interdependencies of modern production processes.

The use of a unit of account in managerial accounting enables firms to choose between activities that yield the highest profit.