Management Accounting

The result?

A management accounting textbook that offers something the competition can't.

A brand new framework ... coverage of ABC and the Balanced Scorecard written by Sob Kaplan ... the most compelling real-world examples... testimonials from practitioners on the authoritativeness and practicality of the material ... the leading-edge technology ... and on unbeatable author team.

Management Accounting, Third Edition lays out a direct route to Corporate Success!

This book tells it to you straight - what you need to know and why. A revised, trimmed-down framework gives you the benefit of current thinking in management accounting, allowing you to master the concepts and skills critical to your success as a manager.

Let Management Accounting, Third Edition be your guide for making business decisions in the real business world!

Contents

• Chapter 1 Management Accounting: Information that Creates Value 2
  
• Chapter 2 The Organization as a System of Activities 32
  
• Chapter 3 Cost Management Concepts and Cost Behavior 70
  
• Chapter 4 Traditional Cost Management Systems 112
  
• Chapter 5 Activity-Based Cost Management Systems 158
  
• Chapter 6 Management Accounting Information for Activity and Process Decisions 216
  
• Chapter 7 Cost Information for Pricing and Product Planning 268
  
• Chapter 8 Capital Budgeting 318
  
• Chapter 9 Management Accounting and Control Systems for Strategic Purposes: Assessing Performance over the Entire Value Chain 364
  
• Chapter 10 Motivating Behavior in Management Accounting and Control Systems 394
  
• Chapter 11 Using Budgets to Achieve Organizational Objectives 436
  
• Chapter 12 Responsibility Centers and Financial Control 504
  
• Glossary 573
  
• Subject Index 583
  
• Company Index 594