Book Information
Management accounting 4th ed.
ISBN: | 0-13-008217-1/9780130082176 |
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Author(s): | Anthony A. Atkinson , Robert S. Kaplan , S. Mark Young | |
Subject(s): | managerial accounting | |
Edition: | 4 | |
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Page: | 598 | |
Size: | 25 | |
Publishing Info: | Pearson Education, 2004 | |
Call number: | 658.1511 A875/4e04 | |
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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
focus: 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 questions: 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.
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