Study Guide to accompany Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 5th Edition - Softcover

Weygandt, Jerry J.; Kimmel, Paul D.; Kieso, Donald E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470506954 ISBN 13: 9780470506950

Publisher: Wiley, 2009

Synopsis

Many corporate managers struggle to see the relevance of accounting in their everyday responsibilities. Weygandt shows them how managerial accounting information fits in the larger context of business so they are better able to understand the important concepts. The new Do It! feature reinforces the basics by providing quick-hitting examples of brief exercises. The chapters also incorporate the All About You (AAY) feature as well as the Accounting Across the Organization (AAO) boxes that highlight the impact of accounting concepts. With these features, readers will have numerous opportunities to think about what they have just read and then apply that knowledge to sample problems.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING TAKES YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO!

Where do you want to go? Will  you be going on to other accounting courses, or are you following a different career path? Regardless of where you want to go, this managerial accounting learning system will take you there!

Get grade-pumping assistance with the new take-action CD-ROM

Interactive CD packed with Self-Tests with individualized feedback. Key Terms Matching Activities, Lecture Videos and Discussion Questions, a Winning Handbook, an Accounting Cycle Tutorial, Career Information and much more! All of this isw designed to help you get the best grade you can in the course...and to give you the tools you need to take you where you want to go in your Career!

A web site takes you even further

When you buy a new copy of this text, you get access to a FREE powerful Companion Website featuring:

• Problems and Demonstration Problems from the text powered by the interactive eGrade software.
• Interactive Self-Study Questions and Self-Tests.
• Exploring the Web Exercises and more!

A world of extra help to keep you on the road!

• Solving Problems Using Excel—Excel templates that allow you to complete select end-of-chapter exercises and problems.
• Study Guide—a powerful tool that guides you through chapter content.
• Working Papers partially completed spreadsheets so you can concentrate on doing accounting rather than inputting data.
• Excel Working Papers—all the accounting forms you will need to successfully complete your study work for Managerial Accounting 2e.

You can buy these additional resources at your bookstore, or see the Wiley website for more details about all the roadside assistance available to you from Wiley!

About the Author:

Jerry J. Weygandt, PhD, CPA, is Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He Hold a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois. Articles by Professor Weygandt have appeared in the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy, and other academic and professional journals. These articles have examined such financial reporting issues as accounting for price-level adjustments, pensions, convertible securities, stock option contracts, and interim reports. Professor Weygandt is author of other accounting and financial reporting books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Wisconsin Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association and as a member of the editorial board of the Accounting Review; he also has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association.In 2001 he received hte American Accounting Association's Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.

Donald E. Kieso, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from Aurora University and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Illinois. He has served as chairman of the Department of Accountancy and is currently the KPMG Peat Marwick Emeritus Professor of Accounting at Northern Illinois University. He has public accounting experience with Price Waterhouse & Co. (San Francisco and Chicago) and Arthur Andersen & Co. (Chicaqgo) and research experience with the Research Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (New York). He has done postdoctorate work as a Visiting Scholar at the Univresity of California at Berkeley and is a recipient of NIU's Teaching Excellence Award and four Golden Apple Teaching Awards. Professor Kieso is the author of other accounting and business books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Instutute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Illinois CPA Society. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois CPA Society, the AACSB's Accounting Accreditation Commitees, the State of Illinois Comptroller's Commission, as Secretary-Treasurer of the Federation of the American Accounting Association. Professor Kieso is currently serving on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Aurora University, as a member of the Board of Directors of Castle BancGroup Inc., and as Treasurer and Director of Valley West Community Hospital.

Paul D. Kimmel, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Wisconsin. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and has public accounting experience with Deloitte & Touche (Minneapolis). He was the recipient of the UWM School of Business Advisory Council Teaching Award, the Reggie Taite Excellence in Teaching Award, and a three-time winner of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the University of Wisconsin. He is also a recipient of the Elijah Watts Sells Award for Honorary Distinction for his results on the CPA exam. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and has published articles in Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Advances in  Management Accounting, Managerial Finance, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, as well as other journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0470506954
• ISBN 13: 9780470506950
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 336