Introduction to Managerial Accounting
A Focus on Decision Making
Published on 25. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-0-324-65073-0 (ISBN)
Description
With its easy-to-understand presentation and hands-on learning approach, "Managerial Accounting: A Focus On Ethical Decision Making" gives you everything you need to know as you face the challenges and rewards of the business world. The authors use realistic companies and real issues to clearly illustrate concepts without getting into complex, extraneous data that can be confusing. An innovative and easy-to-learn four-step problem-solving methodology gives you a proven decision-making framework that will help you define the problem, identify the objectives, analyze available options, and select the best solution.
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Edition
International ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Mason, OH
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-324-65073-0 (9780324650730)
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Content
1. Accounting Information and Managerial Decisions. 2. Corporate Governance and Ethics. 3. Product Costing: Manufacturing Processes, Cost Terminology, and Cost Flows. 4. Cost Behavior and Relevant Costs. 5. Job Costing, Process Costing, and Operations Costing. 6. Activity-Based Costing. 7. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and Variable Costing. 8. Short-Term Tactical Decision Making. 9. Long-Term (Capital Investment) Decisions. 10. The Use of Budgets in Planning and Decision Making. 11. Variance Analysis -- A Tool for Cost Control and Performance Evaluation. 12. Decentralization and Performance Evaluation. 13. Performance Evaluation Using the Balanced Scorecard. 14. Strategic Use of Managerial Accounting Information. 15. Financial Statement Analysis. 16. The Statement of Cash Flows.