Managerial accounting

Recognizing that most students will pursue careers as managers not accountants, Managerial Accounting, 6th Edition by James Jiambalvo focuses on the fundamental topics of managerial accounting, and helps student make direction connections between techniques in the business world, and readers' future careers using real cases and real managers' comments on real company issues. Managerial Accounting, 6th Edition helps students develop decision making through incremental analysis and stresses the fact that you Get What You Measure throughout the program. It is designed for a one semester manageri.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING IN THE INFORMATION AGE ; GOAL OF MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING ; Planning ; Budgets for Planning ; Control ; Performance Reports for Control ; Decision Making ; A Comparison of Managerial and Financial Accounting.

Internal versus External Users Need to Use GAAP ; Detail of Information ; Emphasis on Nonmonetary Information ; Emphasis on the Future ; Similarities between Financial and Managerial Accounting ; COST TERMS USED IN DISCUSSING PLANNING, CONTROL, AND DECISION MAKING.

Variable and Fixed Costs Variable Costs ; Fixed Costs ; Sunk Costs ; Opportunity Costs ; Direct and Indirect Costs ; Controllable and Noncontrollable Costs ; TWO KEY IDEAS IN MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING ; Decision Making Relies on Incremental Analysis.

THE INFORMATION AGE AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING Impact of Information Technology on Management of the Value Chain ; Information Flows between Milano and Customers ; Information Flows between Milano and Suppliers ; Using Information Technology to Gain Internal Efficiencies.

Software Systems That Impact Value Chain Management Enterprise Resource Planning Systems ; …