Managerial Accounting

by Jiambalvo, James

• ISBN13: 9781119158011
• ISBN10: 111915801X
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2018-06-06
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Recognizing that most students will pursue careers as managers not accountants, Managerial Accounting, 6th Edition by James Jiambalvo focuses on the fundamental topics of managerial accounting, and helps student make direction connections between techniques in the business world, and readers’ future careers using real cases and real managers’ comments on real company issues.  Managerial Accounting, 6th Edition helps students develop decision making through incremental analysis and stresses the fact that you Get What You Measure throughout the program. It is designed for a one semester managerial accounting course at both the undergraduate and MBA level.To keep the book streamlined, Chapter 13 Statement of Cashflow and Chapter 14 Analyzing Financial Statements have been made available online only on the Student Companion Site.

Author Biography

Dr. James Jiambalvo joined the accounting faculty at the University of Washington and has served on the national academic advisory board of Deloitte & Touche LLP. Professor Jiambalvo has served as chairman of the UW Accounting Department and he holds the PricewaterhouseCoopers and Alumni Endowed Professorship. Professor Jiambalvo's research has been published in the top accounting journals including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Accounting Research.

Table of Contents

1 Managerial Accounting in the Information Age

2 Job Order Costing for Manufacturing and Service Companies 

3 Process Costing

4 Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

5 Variable Costing

6 Cost Allocation and Activity-Based Costing

7 The Use of Cost Information in Management Decision Making

8 Pricing Decisions, Customer Profitability Analysis, and Activity-Based Pricing

9 Capital Budgeting and Other Long-Run Decisions

10 Budgetary Planning and Control

11 Standard Costs and Variance Analysis

12 Decentralization and Performance Evaluation

13 Statement of Cash Flows (ONLINE ONLY)

14 Analyzing Financial Statements: A Managerial Perspective (ONLINE ONLY)