Managerial Accounting

by Jackson, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780324650648
• ISBN10: 0324650647
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-26
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

With its easy-to-understand presentation and hands-on learning approach, MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: A FOCUS ON ETHICAL DECISION MAKING gives you everything you need to know as you face the challenges and rewards of the business world. The authors use realistic companies and real issues to clearly illustrate concepts without getting into complex, extraneous data that can be confusing. An innovative and easy-to-learn four-step problem-solving methodology gives you a proven decision-making framework that will help you define the problem, identify the objectives, analyze available options, and select the best solution.

Table of Contents

Accounting Information and Managerial Decisions

Corporate Governance and Ethics

Product Costing: Manufacturing Processes, Cost Terminology, and Cost Flows

Cost Behavior and Relevant Costs

Job Costing, Process Costing, and Operations Costing

Activity-Based Costing

Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and Variable Costing

Short-Term Tactical Decision Making

Long-Term (Capital Investment) Decisions

The Use of Budgets in Planning and Decision Making

Variance Analysis -- A Tool for Cost Control and Performance Evaluation

Decentralization and Performance Evaluation

Performance Evaluation Using the Balanced Scorecard

Strategic Use of Managerial Accounting Information

Financial Statement Analysis

The Statement of Cash Flows

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