ISBN13: 9780470769423｜742Pages｜Hardcover｜©2011｜
Author
Leslie Eldenburg - University of Arizona Susan K. Wolcott - CA School of Business and Wolcott Lynch Associates
Description
Most Cost Accounting textbooks focus on content knowledge and then expect students to demonstrate skills such as decision-making and critical thinking. Cost Management better prepares students for professional success by bridging the gaps between Knowledge, Skills and Abilities.
Authors, Leslie Eldenburg and Susan Wolcott realize that many students fail to recognize the assumptions, limitations, behavioral implications and qualitative factors that influence managerial decision-making. The author team focuses on cost accounting methods, techniques, and the quality of cost accounting information used for decision-making to deliver a thoroughly modern treatment of cost accounting topics.
Cost Management is written in a style that is accessible to students through a decision-making framework, use of realistic examples, real ethical dilemmas, self-study problems, and unique problem material structured to encourage them to think about accounting problems and problem-solving.
Table of Contents
Ch 1 Accounting as a Tool for Management
Ch 2 Cost Behavior and Cost Estimation
Ch 3 Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and Pricing Decisions
Ch 4 Product Costing for Manufacturing Companies
Ch 5 Planning and Forecasting
Ch 6 Performance Evaluation: Variance Analysis
Ch 7 Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management
Ch 8 Using Accounting Information to Make Managerial Decisions
Ch 9 Capital Budgeting
Ch 10 Decentralization and Performance Evaluation
Ch 11 Performance Evaluation Revisited: A Balanced Approach
Ch 12 Financial Statement Analysis
Ch 13 Statement of Cash Flows
