Management Accounting: A Business Planning Approach

Designed for use in introductory or graduate-level managerial accounting courses, this text applies an objective-based approach to managerial accounting topics. Unlike traditional cost-accounting texts, Management Accounting emphasizes the critical role that information plays in decision making, strategy execution, and overall enhancement of a firm's value. Through problem-based learning and the business planning model (BPM), Management Accounting develops in students those competencies expected of today's business professionals. This innovative pedagogical approach stresses the understanding and application of the basic business process; risk assessment and its relation to business strategy; critical thinking, reasoning, and analysis; oral and written communication skills; and techniques for team building.

Noah P. Barsky, Ph.D., CPA, CMA, is an assistant professor of accountancy in the College of Commerce and Finance at Villanova University. Professor Barsky received his B.S. and M.S. in accounting from Penn State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He joined the faculty at Villanova University in 1998. Professor Barsky has taught a variety of financial and managerial accounting courses at four different universities. While he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut, he was recognized as an American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow and a recipient of the Accounting Teaching Excellence Award. Professor Barsky is an active member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants. He has given research presentations at numerous national meetings of academic and professional associations. He has also authored two books and published articles in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, The Pennsylvania CPA Journal, and Managerial Finance.