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Managerial Accounting |
9780273764489 Managerial Accounting |
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Managerial Accounting teaches business students how to use accounting to make better decisions and improve performance. Engaging case studies and the popular ‘Manager’s Point of View’ boxes illustrate how concepts are applied in real world business situations. The latter add an extra dimension to your learning, as they are written by experienced practitioners of both management and accounting. With a minimum of technical language and a dedication to practical application, this popular text gives a refreshingly clear guide to management accounting.
Extra sections and features included in the text
Dedication
Introduction to the book for Instructors
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the book for students
Part 1: Foundations
1 Cost behaviour
2 The difference between profit and cash
Part 2: Financial Management
3 Ratio analysis and financial management
4 Working capital management
Part 3: Decision Making
5 variable costing and breakeven analysis
6 Short-term decisions using variable costing
7 Short-term decisions using relevant costing
8 Capital investment appraisal for long-term decisions
Part 4: Product costing and pricing
9 Product costs using absorption costing
10 Product costs using activity-based costing
11 Comparison of profits under absorption and variable costing
12 Pricing your products
13 Divisional performance and transfer pricing
Part 5: Business Performance Management
14 Budgets and their creation
15 using budgets to control operations
16 Budgets, Behaviour and Beyond Budgeting
17 Balanced Scorecards
19 Performance Management Strategies
Glossary
Answers to end-of-chapter questions
Appendix: Not-for-Profit Organisations
Index
Managerial Accounting: Decision Making and Performance Management teaches business students how to use accounting to make better decisions and improve performance. Engaging case studies and the popular ‘Manager’s Point of View’ boxes illustrate how concepts are applied in real world business situations, the latter, written by experienced practitioners of both management and accounting, adding an extra dimension to your learning. With a minimum of technical language and a dedication to practical application, this popular text gives a refreshingly clear guide to management accounting.
The fourth edition includes:
Resources for Lecturers:
Resources for Students include a companion website featuring:
· Multiple choice questions to test your understanding
· A variety of useful weblinks enabling you to explore the topics both in a wider context and in more depth
· Virtual flashcards to aid your revision of key terminology.
Ray Proctor has taught Management Accounting for over 30 years. During his career he has lectured at Coventry University, Oxford Brookes University and Warwick University. His enthusiasm for his subject is clearly communicated through his engaging writing style.
Ray Proctor has taught Management Accounting for over 30 years. During his career he has lectured at Coventry University, Oxford Brookes University and Warwick University.