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Managerial Accounting An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses

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ISBN-10: 0324185634

ISBN-13: 9780324185638

Edition: 8th 2004

Authors: Michael W. Maher, Clyde P. Stickney, Roman L. Weil

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List price: $212.95
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cengage South-Western
Publication date: 6/11/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 736
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.300
Language: English

Clyde P. Stickney is the Signal Companies' Professor of Management, Emeritus at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. He received his DBA from Florida State University and taught at the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the Tuck School in 1977. He has also taught at business schools in Japan, Australia, Finland, and Germany. Prof. Stickney has authored and coauthored books on financial accounting, managerial accounting, and financial statement analysis.

Roman L. Weil, Ph.D., CMA, CPA, is the V. Duane Rath Professor Emeritus of Accounting at the University of Chicago as well as Visiting Professor at the Haas School of the University of California, Berkeley and the Harvard Law School. He has designed and implemented continuing education programs for partners at two of the large accounting firms and for employees at several operating corporations. Dr. Weil has co-authored dozens of books. His lay articles have appeared in Barron's and The Wall Street Journal. He has published more than 80 articles in academic and professional journals, most recently on financial literacy for corporate governance.

Prefacep. v
Overview and Basic Conceptsp. 1
Fundamental Conceptsp. 2
Managerial Application: Why Managers Need Cost Informationp. 4
Managerial Application: J & J's Credop. 11
Measuring Product Costsp. 36
Managerial Application: Using the Basic Cost Flow Equation to Detect Fraudp. 41
Activity-Based Managementp. 84
Managerial Application: Identifying Unused Capacity in the Recovery Roomp. 100
Managerial Application: Impact of ABC on Shareholder Valuep. 104
Managerial Decision Makingp. 127
Strategic Management of Costs, Quality, and Timep. 128
Managerial Application: Firestone Blows Itp. 137
Managerial Application: Reducing Delivery Time to Gain a Competitive Advantagep. 143
Cost Drivers and Cost Behaviorp. 156
Managerial Application: United Airlines Uses Regression to Estimate Cost Behaviorp. 179
Financial Modeling for Short-Term Decision Makingp. 206
Managerial Application: Calculating Break-Even Points for a Brewpubp. 220
Differential Cost Analysis for Marketing Decisionsp. 250
Managerial Application: Pricing Practices in Various Countriesp. 258
Managerial Application: A Target Costing Challenge in Forest Productsp. 259
Differential Cost Analysis for Production Decisionsp. 276
Capital Expenditure Decisionsp. 316
Managerial Application: Environmental Investmentsp. 319
Managerial Application: Investing in Improved Technologyp. 329
Motivating Managers to Make Good Decisionsp. 351
Profit Planning and Budgetingp. 352
Managerial Application: Honesty in Managerial Reportingp. 357
Managerial Application: Developing Master Budgets Throughout the Worldp. 360
Managerial Application: Using the Internet for Budgetingp. 369
Profit Center Performance Evaluationp. 404
Managerial Application: Does Effective Total Quality Management Require Nontraditional Performance Measures?p. 418
Cost Center Performance Evaluationp. 438
Managerial Application: An Antidote to Biased Standards: How Workers Develop Their Own Standards at NUMMIp. 444
Investment Center Performance Evaluationp. 482
Managerial Application: Just-In-Time Production in Japan and the Internal Revenue Service in the United Statesp. 494
Managerial Application: Does Economic Value Added Beat Earnings?p. 502
Incentive Issuesp. 524
Managerial Application: Conflicts in an Incentive Compensation Planp. 527
Managerial Application: Cost Management in Action: Why Hewlett-Packard Now Manages Suppliers Instead of Overheadp. 533
Managerial Application: Does Customer Satisfaction Pay Off?p. 535
Managerial Application: Successfully Implementing the Balanced Scorecard: The FMC Experiencep. 537
Managerial Application: Software Company's Stock Tanks after Premature Revenue Recognition Disclosedp. 545
Allocating Costs to Responsibility Centersp. 560
Managerial Application: Allocating Corporate Costs to Retail Storesp. 562
Compound Interest Examples and Applicationsp. 590
Compound Interest and Annuity Tablesp. 609
Glossaryp. 615
Indexp. 705
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