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Management Accounting for Decision Makers, 11th edition

Published by Pearson (July 24, 2024) © 2024

  • Peter Atrill University of Plymouth Business School
  • Eddie McLaney

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Familiarise your students with the essential management accounting principles and techniques from theory to practice.

Management Accounting for Decision Makers,11th Edition supports your teaching as you introduce your students to essential management accounting concepts.

This reader-friendly edition offers step-by-step guidance, providing the all-important framework for effective strategic planning and decision-making.

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Hallmark features of this title

A structure that supports your students' introduction to the key principles of Management Accounting

  • Introductions in each chapter that set the learning objectives for your students
  • Regular Examples and Activities sections stimulate student thinking.
  • Chapters conclude with a summary containing key points, Self-Assessment Question boxes, and Critical Review Questions.
  • End-of-chapter exercises cover a range of levels allowing students to develop their critical thinking skills

A range of features that consolidates your students' understanding of Management Accounting

  • A clear focus on decision-making that prepares students for a business career
  • A step-by-step guide through making the best strategic choices in business and management roles
  • Illustrations and activities, seamlessly woven into the text to enable individual learning and revision or group work

"Excellent, relevant, and practical management accounting edition with improved and updated real-world examples supported by self-assessment activities and review questions reflecting current changes in the management accounting field."
– Dr McFoster Tembo (FCCA), Assistant Professor in Accounting, Coventry University

"Management Accounting for Decision Makers is a benchmark of clarity and practicality. It addresses key issues and has a wealth of examples to support and embed learning."
– Ian Crawford, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Bath

New and updated features of this title

  • New and updated real-world examples add variety and interest to the subject with the use of arresting new data and scenarios, helping students understand the theory as it actually is applied in practice in the business environment.
  • The revised Regular Examples and Activities sections stimulate your students' thinking, chosen to come at the most necessary points in each chapter.
  • Expanded content on topics relevant to decision-making, including opportunity costs, contingency planning and risk heat maps, inventory control, strategic management accounting and more
  • A new set of multiple-choice questions, added to the end of every chapter to help you revise

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  • There are now over 1000 exercises in MyLab available for formative or summative work, including new questions on analysing and interpreting financial statements (chapter 9). You can track student performance in the sophisticated Gradebook.
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  • NEW – Workplace scenarios have been introduced which mimic real life scenarios to prepare students for their careers. Each scenario requires students to view a mock business meeting and then submit a report with their recommendations.

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction to management accounting
  2. Relevant costs and benefits for decision making
  3. Cost–volume–profit analysis
  4. Full costing
  5. Costing and cost management in a competitive environment
  6. Budgeting
  7. Accounting for control
  8. Making capital investment decisions
  9. Managing risk
  10. Strategic management accounting: performance evaluation and pricing in a competitive environment
  11. Measuring divisional performance
  12. Managing working capital
  • Appendix A Solutions to self-assessment questions
  • Appendix B Solutions to critical review questions
  • Appendix C Solutions to multiple choice questions
  • Appendix D Solutions to selected exercises

Author bios

Peter Atrill is a freelance academic and author who has worked with leading institutions in the UK, Europe and South-East Asia. As well as working as a business consultant, he was previously Head of Business and Management and Head of Accounting and Law at Plymouth Business School.

Eddie McLaney is an academic author with many years' experience in teaching Accounting and Finance. He was formerly the Accounting Subject Group Leader and Principal Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Plymouth Business School.

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