Introduction to Management Accounting: Chapters 1-14 - Hardcover

Horngren, Charles T.; Sundem, Gary L.; Stratton, William O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131440713 ISBN 13: 9780131440715

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2004

Synopsis

Get refreshed with Horngren/Sundem/Stratton's Introduction to Management Accounting, 13th Edition. This best-selling book offers a relevant, real-world decision-making approach to management accounting. Readers develop a solid understanding of costs and cost behavior and the use of cost information for planning and control decisions, not just inventory valuation. This book emphasizes the notion that You need to understand the business first, before you can understand the accounting of business. Updated to cover the most recent methods in management accounting, topics include: cost behavior, cost management systems, and activity-based costing; marketing and product decisions; the master budget; flexible budget and variance analysis; management control systems; capital budgeting; cost allocation; and job-costing and process-costing systems. An excellent reference resource for managerial accountants.

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From the Back Cover

This text describes both theory and common practices in a way that will help readers understand how to produce information that's useful in day-to-day decision-making.

Managerial Accounting, the Business Organization, and Professional Ethics; Introduction to Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume Relationships; Measurement of Cost Behavior; Cost Management Systems and Activity-Based Costing; Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Pricing Decisions; Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Operational Decisions; Introduction to Budgets and Preparing the Master Budget; Flexible Budgets and Variance Analysis; Management Control Systems and Responsibility Accounting; Management Control in Decentralized Organizations; Capital Budgeting; Cost Allocation; Accounting for Overhead Costs; Job-Costing and Process-Costing Systems; Basic Accounting: Concepts, Techniques, and Conventions; Understanding Corporate Annual Reports: Basic Financial Statements; Understanding and Analyzing Consolidated Financial Statements

For management professionals who would like to understand how to make effective economic decisions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131440713
• ISBN 13: 9780131440715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 674