Accounting for Decision Making and Control
Published in February 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-07-116912-7 (ISBN)
Description
Designed for graduate level courses in managerial accounting. The text uses the concept of opportunity cost, and the approach attempts to illustrate the inter-relations among changing accounting systems. Critical thinking and analytical skills are developed through actual company applications.
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Edition
International 2 Revised ed
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations, glossary
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-116912-7 (9780071169127)
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Jerold Zimmerman
Accounting for Decision Making and Control
Book
08/2002
4th Edition
McGraw-Hill Professional
€55.70
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Content
The nature of costs; opportunity cost of capital and capital budgeting; organizational architecture; responsibility accounting and transfer pricing; budgets and budgeting; cost allocation - theory; cost allocation - practices; absorption cost systems; criticisms of absorption cost systems - incentives to overproduce; criticisms of absorption cost systems - inaccurate product costs; standard costs - direct labour and materials; overhead and market variances; management accounting in a changing environment.