<p> Written to create a collection of teaching cases that are interesting, thought-provoking and relevant to contemporary business situations and decisions, this book advocates broadening and strengthening the management dimensions of management accounting and control courses—doing so without sacrificing essential accounting content. Challenging yet concise cases are presented in a manner that minimizes reader preparation requirements.  Topics and materials demonstrate how costs, cost analysis, and planning and performance measurement can be useful to managers in making operating and strategic decisions. This edition includes cases intended to build a foundation of basic concepts like cost behaviors, standard costing, and relevant costs. It also includes cases intended to address more comprehensive and complex issues such as activity-based thinking, balanced scorecards, transfer pricing, the use of ROI versus Residual Income to measure performance, flexible budgeting, and revenue and expense variance analysis.  For anyone in management accounting, cost accounting, strategic cost management, and/or management control systems professions. </p>

Cases In Management Accounting And Control Systems

Business & Money

Haskins, Mark E.

Brownlee, E. Richard

Allen, Brandt R.

Lynch, Luann J.

Rotch, Jane W.

Accounting

Pearson College Div

This text is designed for the first graduate-level course in Financial Accounting, typically at better 4-year schools and MBA programs. The text's user perspective is designed to foster an understanding of the nature of business transactions, identification of relevant economic events for reporting, determination of the most appropriate financial measures for those events,and analysis of the effects of those events on firm performance and financial condition.

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Ferris, Kenneth R.

Sack, Robert J.

Richard D.Irwin

Overview of accounting and financial statements; accounting as the language of business; there is more to accounting than meets the eye; the accounting process; using and understanding the basic financial statements; the balance sheet; the income statement; the statement of cash flows; analyzing and understanding corporate financial reports; measuring and reporting assets and equities using generally accepted accounting principles; trade receivables and marketable securities; inventories and cost of goods sold; active investments and business communications; noncurrent assets - fixed assets, intangible assets and natural resources; accounting of liabilities - basic concepts, payables, accurals, and interest-bearing debt; leases, retirement benefit, and deferred income taxes; owners' equity; financial reporting in two other countries; communication corporate value.

Economics

Mcgraw-Hill College

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