Ito Katsuhiro
The Journal of Management Accounting, Japan, 26(2) 31-46, 2018
<p>Both production and sales are the main functions for corporate activities. Historically, comparing the two areas, the development of management accounting is prominent in the production function. At the center of management accounting, there existed a technique to control the production process. The reason why the management accounting in sales function did not developed is that information on the sales process could not be obtained.</p><p>Due to changes in the environment in recent years, marketing management practice has undergone a major transformation. Previously, we used budgeting and profitability analysis to control inputs and outputs of marketing process. As a result, the marketing process was managed indirectly. The recent major change is that customer behaviors are being tracked directly. In this paper, we examines how marketing management accounting has changed by marketing automation, and what kind of problem newly occurred.</p>