Managerial Accounting: Decision Making and Performance Improvement, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (August 7, 2012) © 2013

  • Ray Proctor Coventry University
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Improve your decision-making skills and learn to think like manager with this accounting textbook

Managerial Accounting: Decision Making and Performance Improvement will challenge and encourage you to develop your knowledge in the field and see how it applies to the real world.

With thought-provoking case studies and aids, this edition provides new and additional content on performance management techniques and strategies to broaden your knowledge and understanding of the discipline.

With a range of tools to encourage your critical thinking skills on the topics, this is a book that provides the resources you need to prepare for your career in the field.

This edition includes a Companion Website.

Table of contents

Part 1: Foundations

  1. 1 Cost behaviour
  2. 2 The difference between profit and cash

Part 2: Financial Management

  1. 3 Ratio analysis and financial management
  2. 4 Working capital management

Part 3: Decision Making

  1. 5 variable costing and breakeven analysis
  2. 6 Short-term decisions using variable costing
  3. 7 Short-term decisions using relevant costing
  4. 8 Capital investment appraisal for long-term decisions

Part 4: Product costing and pricing

  1. 9 Product costs using absorption costing
  2. 10 Product costs using activity-based costing
  3. 11 Comparison of profits under absorption and variable costing
  4. 12 Pricing your products
  5. 13 Divisional performance and transfer pricing

Part 5: Business Performance Management

  1. 14 Budgets and their creation
  2. 15 Using budgets to control operations
  3. 16 Budgets, Behaviour and Beyond Budgeting
  4. 17 Balanced Scorecards
  5. 19 Performance Management Strategies

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