Managerial Accounting - Hardcover

Jiambalvo, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471228761 ISBN 13: 9780471228769

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

A brief, focused look at managerial accounting that stresses what readers need as managers. This unique package is comprised of a text, CD, and web site that work seamlessly together. The concise and innovative text focuses on two key ideas, the importance of incremental analysis in decision-making and performance measurement.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Make smart business decisions!

Recognizing that most students will become managers, and not accountants, Jiambalvo’s Managerial Accounting, Second Edition focuses on the knowledge and skills that managers need to make good business decisions. Students and instructors alike have praised the clear and concise writing style – discussions are to the point, ideas are illustrated, and examples are presented to make the ideas concrete.

Here’s how it works:

1. Present a new business decision-making framework.
Every chapter is linked to decision making with a feature called Making Business Decisions. The feature has a Knowledge and Skills Checklist that you can use off the concepts and techniques that you’ve learned in the chapter.

2. Emphasizes two key themes.
Jiambalvo focuses on two key themes that will help you in the business world: Incremental Analysis (the analysis of the differences in revenue and in costs between decision alternatives) and You Get What You Measure! (performance measures greatly influence the behaviors of managers).

3. Provides clear, current, and concise coverage.
The text addresses a wide number of current and emerging topics in managerial accounting, such as the balanced scorecard and economic value added (EVA). New chapters cover Variable Costing, Pricing Decisions, and Analyzing Financial Statements.

4. Connects concepts and techniques to the real world.

• New examples relate concepts to service companies.
• Links to Practice boxes relate the text material to real companies.
• Cases in each chapter promote critical and applied thinking.

5. Includes a state-of-the-art CD-ROM and Web site, featuring:

• Videos with real managers.
• Self-Tests and other study tools.
• Demonstrations of important concepts and techniques.
• Additional cases that require you to use your managerial accounting knowledge.

 

About the Author:

PROFESSOR JAMES JIAMBALVO joined the faculty at the University of Washington after receiving a Ph.D. in accounting from The Ohio State University. A CPA, he has audit experience with the firm that is now Deloitte & Touche and has served on D&T’s national academic advisory board. Professor Jiambalvo’s research has been published in top accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Accounting Research. He is a past associate editor of The Accounting Review and has been a member of the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research; Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory; and the Journal of Management Accounting Research.
Professor Jiambalvo has received the Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, the Andrew V. Smith Faculty Development Award, and the Lex N. Gamble Award for Excellence in the Field of E-Commerce, and he was recognized for his teaching of managerial accounting with the MBA Professor of the Year Award. Professor Jiambalvo has taught numerous executive education courses, including courses for a number of software companies. At the University of Washington, he holds the PricewaterhouseCoopers and Alumni Endowed Professorship.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471228761
• ISBN 13: 9780471228769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 544