Management Accounting: A Decision Emphasis

This latest edition of the popular accounting text is a comprehensive introduction to management accounting theory and practice. Includes both theory and techniques: covers accounting theory, economic theory, quantitative methods, and organizational theory. Also contains problems for manufacturing, service, and retail organizations, and for profit-oriented, not-for-profit, and governmental systems. Contains new material on variable standard costing, absorption costing, allocation of direct costs, long-range decisions, budgeting, and budgetary control and responsibility accounting. Now includes matrix algebra and new material in the statistical methods appendix and on the learning curve. Contains many new problems.