Introduction to Management Accounting: A User Perspective Canadian Edition

• For Introduction to Management Accounting courses.
• This introduction to management accounting and its significant role in making sound business decisions teaches students how to be wise users, not necessarily preparers, of accounting information. The authors present accounting information in a broader business context, emphasizing what accounting information is, why it is important, and how it is used to make strategic economic decisions. This text is especially well-suited for students taking non-major/mixed major accounting courses.

Key Benefit: This introduction to accounting and its significant role in making sound business decisions trains readers in becoming wise users, not necessarily preparers of accounting information—a strong user-based approach that's endorsed and supported by the AECC. Key Topics: The authors present accounting information in a broader business context—emphasizing what accounting information is, why it is important, and how it is used to make strategic economic decisions—but still include traditional debit/credit information as optional coverage. Discussions include Management Accounting: It's Environment and Future; Classifying Costs; Determining Costs of Products; Cost Behavior; Business Decisions Using Cost Behavior; Making Decisions Using Relevant Information; The Capital Budget: Evaluating Capital Expenditures; The Operating Budget; Standard Costing; and Evaluating Performance. Market: For practicing office professionals, accounting clerks and paraprofessionals, and staff accountants.