Administrative Accounting

Think: management accounting. This flavor of bean counting refers to actually-youthful-accounting, wherein beans are totaled, assessed, contextualized, and then communicated to management around the org, with the hope that these numbers help the sales department sell more product, and help the production department produce more product, cheaper, better, faster.

An administrative accountant is kind of a mash-up of a bean counter and a management consultant and an efficiency expert, all rolled into one, usually for one low price of something dollars and 99 cents a month.



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