Accounting for Decision Making and Control
4th Edition
Published on 16. August 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-07-119915-5 (ISBN)
Description
Accounting for Decision Making and Control by Jerry Zimmerman continues to grow in popularity with instructors due to its emphasis on teaching students to critically evaluate and solve actual business problems. Zimmerman is able to achieve this through: 1) Strong conceptual framework; 2) Business orientation focusing on how organizations work; 3) Balance between concepts & practice; 4) Strongest problem material available.
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Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations, glossary
Dimensions
Height: 259 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1542 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-119915-5 (9780071199155)
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Accounting for Decision Making and Control
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Person
Research and teaching interests involve financial and managerial accounting. He and Professor Ross L. Watts received American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Awards in 1979 and 1980 for their joint papers. He received the American Accounting Association award for Seminal Contribution to Accounting Literature in 2004. He was the 1978 winner of the Competitive Manuscript Award, sponsored by the American Accounting Association, for his paper, "The Costs and Benefits of Cost Allocation." His research, which has come to be called "positive theories of accounting," seeks to understand the costs and benefits of various accounting procedures. He and Watts co-authored a book, Positive Accounting Theory, published by Prentice-Hall in 1986.
Content
1)Introduction 2)The nature of costs 3)Opportunity cost of capital and capital budgeting 4)Organizational architecture 5)Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing 6)Budgets and budgeting 7)Cost allocation: Theory 8)Cost allocation: Practices 9)Absorption cost system 10)Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Incentives to overproduce 11)Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Inaccurate product costs 12)Standard costs: Direct labor and materials 13)Overhead and marketing variances 14)Management accounting in a changing environment