Managerial Accounting, 1st Edition

Jennifer M. Cainas, University of South Florida
Celina Jozsi, Florida Southern College
Kelly Richmond Pope, DePaul University

An examination of how managerial accounting info shapes today's business environment

Using a data analytics approach, Managerial Accounting shows students how to gather, process, and prepare useful information to assist management with key operational and strategic decisions.

The 1st Edition seamlessly blends relevant, real-world company examples and interactive exercises with compelling videos to engage students. Students see how actual entrepreneurs analyze data and use emerging technologies to make business decisions, helping the students gain a deeper appreciation for how accounting data is used today throughout all aspects of business.

Features | About the authors | Testimonials | Brief Contents | Demo Video | Author Webinars

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Features

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Video Case

Decision Making Mini-Sims

Acting as consultants, students evaluate relevant data and make decisions or offer recommendations based on their analyses.

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Key Concept and Solved Problem Videos

Found directly within the eText narrative, videos provide a step-by-step walkthrough on how to apply concepts to solve real accounting problems.

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Data Analytics Projects

Hands-on exercises, video tutorials, and software instruction helps students learn to analzye data in order to make sound, evidence-based decisions that drive business performance.

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Dynamic Study Modules

Highly personalized, algorithmically-driven modules help students study effectively at their own pace.

Meet the authors

Testimonials

“[Managerial accounting] on my campus is known to be the most difficult in the College of Business. This was a straightforward yet unique experience that I really enjoyed (especially for a topic I was not super excited about).”

- Student at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona

“[The simulation] gave an in-depth, real-world example that honestly helped me better understand the steps in cost behavior but also its relevancy in general.”

- Student at University of South Florida

Brief contents

  1. Managerial Accounting: An Information System
    • Appendix: Financial Accounting Review
  2. Understanding Product Costs
    • Appendix: Journal Entries for Product Cost
  3. Job Costing
  4. Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management
  5. Process Costing
    • Appendix: The FIFO Method in a Process Costing System
  6. Cost Behavior
  7. Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Analysis
  8. Relevant Costing for Short-Term Decisions
  9. Capital Budgeting Decisions
    • Appendix: The Time Value of Money
  10. The Master Budget
  11. Standard Costs and Performance Evaluation
    • Appendix: Recording Journal Entries for Standard Costs and Variances
  12. Analyzing Managerial Accounting Information to Create Value

Author Demo Video

Watch author Jennifer Cainas, DBA, walk through this all-digital product.

This turn-key course is designed around a completely digital, interactive and assignable text - which allows students to interact with the data, view video examples, and test themselves with short quizzes, holding students accountable in their studies.

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Author Webinars

Finding your Groove with Digital Tools

Watch author Kelly Pope, PhD, as she discusses her switch to all-digital course materials, including how this move has led to better student outcomes, enhanced classroom engagement, and noticeably improved energy with her students.

Finding your groove
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