Part 1: Focus on decision making -- 1. Managerial accounting and the business organization. Chapter Opener: Starbucks -- 2. Introduction to cost behaviour and cost-volume relationships. Chapter Opener: Boeing 3 -- Measurement of cost behavior. Chapter Opener: America West -- 4. Cost management systems and activity-based costing. Chapter Opener: AT&T -- 5. Relevant information and decision making: marketing decisions. Chapter Opener: Grand Canyon Railway -- 6. Relevant information and decision making: production decisions. Chapter Opener: Nantucket Nectars -- Part 2. Accounting for planning and control -- 7. The master budget. Chapter Opener: Ritz-Carlton -- 8. Flexible budgets and variance analysis. Chapter Opener: McDonald's -- 9. Management control systems and responsibility accounting. Chapter Opener: Health Net -- 10. Management control in decentralized organizations. Chapter Opener: Nike -- Part 3: Capital budgeting -- 11. Capital budgeting. Chapter Opener: Deer Valley Lodge -- Part 4: Product costing -- 12. Cost allocation. Chapter Opener: L.A. Darling -- 13. Accounting for overhead costs. Chapter Opener: Dell Computer -- 14. Job-costing and process-costing systems. Chapter Opener: Jelly Belly Candy -- Part 5: Basic financial accounting -- 15. Basic accounting: concepts, techniques and conventions. Chapter Opener: Microsoft -- 16. Understanding corporate annual reports. Chapter Opener: Nike -- 17. Understanding and analyzing consolidated financial statements. Chapter Opener: General Motors
Summary
Introduction to Management Accounting emphasizes decision-making throughout each chapter. Students develop a solid understanding of costs and cost behavior and the use of cost information for planning and control decisions, not just inventory valuation
Notes
"International Edition"--Cover
"Chapters 1-17"--Cover
Title page incorrectly states 14th edition
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 813-817) and index
