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Accounting Accounting for Decision Making and Control / Jerold L. Zimmerman

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Massachusetts : McGraw Hill Education, c2009Edition: Sixth EditionDescription: xvi, 733 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780071283700
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HF 5635 .Z56 2009
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. The nature of costs -- 3. Opportunity cost of capital and capital budgeting -- 4. Organizational architecture -- 5. Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing -- 6. Budgets and budgeting -- 7. Cost allocation: Theory -- 8. Cost allocation: Practices -- 9. Absorption cost system -- 10. Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Incentives to overproduce -- 11. Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Inaccurate product costs -- 12. Standard costs: Direct labor and materials -- 13. Overhead and marketing variances -- 14. Management accounting in a changing environment
Summary: Accounting for Decision Making and Control provides 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. The 6th edition provides a framework for thinking about accounting systems and a basis for analyzing proposed changes to these systems. The text demonstrates that managerial accounting is an integral part of the firm's organizational architecture, not just an isolated set of computational topics. This new edition has improved its readability and accessibility to students.
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Includes index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The nature of costs -- 3. Opportunity cost of capital and capital budgeting -- 4. Organizational architecture -- 5. Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing -- 6. Budgets and budgeting -- 7. Cost allocation: Theory -- 8. Cost allocation: Practices -- 9. Absorption cost system -- 10. Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Incentives to overproduce -- 11. Criticisms of absorption cost systems: Inaccurate product costs -- 12. Standard costs: Direct labor and materials -- 13. Overhead and marketing variances -- 14. Management accounting in a changing environment

Accounting for Decision Making and Control provides 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. The 6th edition provides a framework for thinking about accounting systems and a basis for analyzing proposed changes to these systems. The text demonstrates that managerial accounting is an integral part of the firm's organizational architecture, not just an isolated set of computational topics. This new edition has improved its readability and accessibility to students.

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