Accounting for decision making and control /

By: Zimmerman, Jerold LMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill Irwin, c2009Edition: 6th edDescription: xvi, 733 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 9780071267458 ; 007126745XSubject(s): Managerial accountingDDC classification: 658.1511 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Click here to access online
Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The nature of costs Chapter 3: Opportunity cost of capital and capital budgeting Chapter 4: Organizational architecture Chapter 5: Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing Chapter 6: Budgets and budgeting Chapter 7: Cost allocation: Theory Chapter 8: Cost allocation: Practices Chapter 9: Absorption cost system Chapter 10: Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Incentives to overproduce Chapter 11: Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Inaccurate product costs Chapter 12: Standard costs: Direct labor and materials Chapter 13: Overhead and marketing variances Chapter 14: Management accounting in a changing environment
Summary: Offers students and managers with an understanding and appreciation of the strengths and limitations of an organization's accounting system which allows them to be more intelligent users of these systems. This title provides a framework for thinking about accounting systems and a basis for analyzing proposed changes to these systems.
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Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The nature of costs Chapter 3: Opportunity cost of capital and capital budgeting Chapter 4: Organizational architecture Chapter 5: Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing Chapter 6: Budgets and budgeting Chapter 7: Cost allocation: Theory Chapter 8: Cost allocation: Practices Chapter 9: Absorption cost system Chapter 10: Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Incentives to overproduce Chapter 11: Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Inaccurate product costs Chapter 12: Standard costs: Direct labor and materials Chapter 13: Overhead and marketing variances Chapter 14: Management accounting in a changing environment

Offers students and managers with an understanding and appreciation of the strengths and limitations of an organization's accounting system which allows them to be more intelligent users of these systems. This title provides a framework for thinking about accounting systems and a basis for analyzing proposed changes to these systems.

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