ESCP Europe

"In todays troubled economy, its important to show students how managerial decisions can affect business costs.Introduction to Management Accounting shows students how to make effective economic decisions by understanding key concepts, and how companies use them. This Global Edition has been edited to include enhancements making it more relevant to students outside the United States." - from back cover.

Part 1 Focus on decision making --- 1 Managerial accounting, the business organization, and professional ethics --- 2 Introduction to cost behavior and cost-volume relationships --- 3 Measurement of cost behavior --- 4 Cost management systems and activity-based costing --- 5 Relevant information for decision making with a focus on pricing decisions --- 6 Relevant information for decision making with a focus on operational decisions --- Part 2 Accounting for planning and control --- 7 Introduction to budgets and preparing the master budget --- 8 Flexible budgets and variance analysis --- 9 Management control systems and responsibility accounting --- 10 Management control in decentralized organizations --- Part 3 Capital budgeting --- 11 Capital budgeting --- Part 4 Product costing --- 12 Cost allocation --- 13 Accounting for overhead costs --- 14 Job-costing and process-costing systems --- Part 5 Basic financial accounting --- 15 Basic accounting: concepts, techniques, and conventions --- 16 Understanding corporate annual reports: basic financial statements --- 17 Understanding and analyzing consolidated financial statements..