num_pages: 624
description: Each of the book's authors is both a scholar and a top consultant for Fortune 500 and smaller companies. As a result, they have a unique to help readers better understand management accounting topics, research, and issues from the perspective of a business manager. KEY TOPICS A twelve chapter organization and framework addresses the needs of future business managers—specifically, how to interpret and use accounting information to make good decisions. The book answers many pertinent What defines the nature, focus, and scope of management accounting? What determines the cost of products or customers? How do costs change over the product's life cycle? What approaches do managers use to compute the costs of their products and services? How can we use cost for planning and decision-making purposes? How can we use revenue and cost information for capacity planning and profit planning and evaluation purposes? How can we manage and control organizational behavior through organizational design, and how does cost information inform the process of control? For management accountants, cost system designers, incentive compensation system designers, and balanced scorecard implementers.
language: English
title: Management Accounting, Fourth Edition
titlecomplete: Management Accounting, Fourth Edition
genres: Business, Accounting, Nonfiction, School, Economics, Textbooks
ratings_count: 166
publisher: Prentice Hall