Week 6 Discussion- Account for Managment Decision Making

Account For Management Decision Making

Week 6 Learning Resources

Centralized Or Decentralized

Most mid-size to large organizations is structured as either centralized or decentralized businesses. A centralized business is one that is structured to place the major decision-making and strategic planning in a single individual. A decentralized business is the opposite, where the business is divided into segments or groups with the decision-making residing in each of these smaller segments. Both organizational structures have several advantages and disadvantages that affect the managerial accounting functions.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review this week's Learning Resources.
• Identify an organization with which you are familiar and consider its organizational structure with regard to being centralized or decentralized.

Post an analysis of the organizational structure in managerial decision making, to include the following:

• Briefly describe the organization that you chose.
• Explain the organization structure in terms of being centralized or decentralized and how you determined the structure type. 
• Describe three advantages to this structure.