Management Accounting for
Decision Makers, 4th Edition
By Peter Atrill & Eddie McLaney
Financial Times / Pearson Education Limited
May 2005
ISBN: 0273688677
470 Pages, Illustrated, 7 ½" x 9 ¾"
$89.50 Paper Original
A comprehensive introduction to the basic principles and underlying concepts of management accounting. This extremely student-friendly text is praised for its clear and uncluttered style, as well as its interactive and lively presentation. It has a clear focus on how accounting information can be used to improve the quality of decision making by managers. It adopts an appropriate level of detail for introductory courses, avoiding too much emphasis on technical aspects.
Features
" Progress checks: numerous activities and exercises enable students to constantly test their understanding and reinforce learning.
" Lively and relevant examples from the real world demonstrate the practical application and value of concepts and techniques learnt.
" Interactive 'open-learning' style is ideal for self-study.
" Decision-making focus on the use of accounting information rather than the preparation is highly appropriate for tomorrow's business managers.
" Key terms, glossary and bulleted summaries are excellent revision aids.
Contents
Preface, Acknowledgements
1. Introduction to management accounting
2. Relevant costs for decision making
3. Cost-volume-profit analysis
4. Full costing
5. Costing and pricing in a competitive environment
6. Budgeting
7. Accounting for control
8. Making capital investment decisions
9. Managing working capital
10. Measuring and controlling divisional performance
11. Strategic Management Accounting
Appendix A: Glossary of key terms
Appendix B: Solutions to self-assessment questions
Appendix C: Solutions to selected exercises
Appendix D: Present value table Index
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