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  1. An accountant is a person responsible for
  2. drawing up accounts, usually for a business
  3. organization. Accountants have traditionally
  4. concentrated on recording what has happened 
  5. financially in the past. However, in
  6. management accounting, accountants are 
  7. increasingly involved in helping to formulate
  8. policy for business organizations, providing
  9. information for decision makers and 
  10. frameworks for making those decisions in the
  11. future.
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  13. Subject by: Vince Pike
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