Managerial Accounting or Cost Management

Managerial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses

Author: Michael W Maher

Master the concepts and managerial uses of financial information with MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING! Emphasizing international trends, strategic effects of decisions, ethics, and new management accounting trends, this text provides all the tools you need to be successful in this course. Studying is made easy with end-of-chapter key terms and concepts, summaries, problems for self-study, and managerial accounting boxes that feature new trends and practices in managerial accounting to help you apply key concepts.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	Overview and Basic Concepts	1
Ch. 1	Fundamental Concepts	2
Ch. 2	Measuring Product Costs	36
Ch. 3	Activity-Based Management	84
Pt. 2	Managerial Decision Making	127
Ch. 4	Strategic Management of Costs, Quality, and Time	128
Ch. 5	Cost Drivers and Cost Behavior	156
Ch. 6	Financial Modeling for Short-Term Decision Making	206
Ch. 7	Differential Cost Analysis for Marketing Decisions	250
Ch. 8	Differential Cost Analysis for Production Decisions	276
Ch. 9	Capital Expenditure Decisions	316
Pt. 3	Motivating Managers to Make Good Decisions	351
Ch. 10	Profit Planning and Budgeting	352
Ch. 11	Profit Center Performance Evaluation	404
Ch. 12	Cost Center Performance Evaluation	438
Ch. 13	Investment Center Performance Evaluation	482
Ch. 14	Incentive Issues	524
Ch. 15	Allocating Costs to Responsibility Centers	560
App	Compound Interest Examples and Applications	590
	Compound Interest and Annuity Tables	609
	Glossary	615
	Index	705

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Cost Management: Accounting & Control

Author: Don R Hansen

Introduce your students to the dynamic, exciting nature of cost management as this edition demonstrates how today's conditions consistently require change in cost management systems. Hansen/Mowen/Guan's COST MANAGEMENT: ACCOUNTING AND CONTROL, Sixth Edition, first covers functional-based cost and control and then activity-based cost systems, giving students the understanding and skills to manage any cost management system. This edition's expansive coverage and consistent attention to technical detail provides a thorough, well-researched foundation for learning. It addresses the most recent influential topics and emerging processes affecting the discipline, including a new chapter on lean accounting and a focus on technology tools that positively impact internal costing practices.

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An undergraduate text on traditional and contemporary approaches to cost management, accounting, and control. Coverage includes foundation concepts, functional-based and activity-based costing, and decision making. Themes throughout include a historical perspective, value chain analysis, and accounting and cost management systems. A service sector focus is maintained, and there is material on behavioral and ethical issues. Includes worked problems, exercises, discussion and writing questions, and spreadsheet template problems. Can also be used at the graduate level. The authors are affiliated with Oklahoma State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)