Managerial accounting

"A text that clearly presents the mechanics and techniques of managerial accounting is a good thing. However, in today's business climate, managers need a text that shows them how to use managerial accounting to solve business problems and make sound business decisions." "Managerial Accounting combines traditional topic coverage with a strategic framework that shows students how to construct decision models and measure information. It shows readers exactly when and where a particular tool or technique is the best choice, and clearly places accounting information in the context of the business decision."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes index.

Module I. Introduction and Framework -- Ch. 1. Accounting: Information for Decision Making -- Ch. 2. Identifying and Estimating Costs and Benefits -- Ch. 3. Cost Flows and Cost Terminology -- Module II. Short-Term Planning and Control: Maximizing Contribution -- Ch. 4. Techniques for Estimating Fixed and Variable Costs -- Ch. 5. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis -- Ch. 6. Decision Making in the Short Term -- Ch. 7. Operating Budgets: Bridging Planning and Control -- Ch. 8. Budgetary Control and Variance Analysis -- Module III. Planning and Control over the Long Term: Maximizing Profit -- Ch. 9. Cost Allocations: Theory and Applications -- Ch. 10. Activity-Based Costing and Management -- Ch. 11. Managing Long-Lived Resources: Capital Budgeting -- Ch. 12. Performance Evaluation in Decentralized Organizations -- Ch. 13. Strategic Planning and Control -- Module IV. Cost Accounting Systems -- Ch. 14. Job Costing -- Ch. 15. Process Costing -- Ch. 16. Support Activity and Dual-Rate Allocations.