Management Accounting: A Strategic Approach (Ab Accounting Principles)

New edition of a text that provides a framework for identifying and analyzing decision alternatives and for evaluating success in accomplishing organizational goals. Thirteen chapters discuss management accounting, activity and profitability cost analysis and planning, contribution analysis for decision making, value chain analysis and activity-based management, product costing and the manufacturing environment, designing product cost systems, inventory valuation approaches and management, operational budgeting, performance assessment, profitability analysis of strategic business segments, and strategic management of price, cost, quality, and capital expenditures.