Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance

by Madhav V. Rajan, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav Rajan

Book Overview

Go beyond managerial accounting theory to the techniques used in management today.

Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance enables managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company's decision-making teams.

This new program from established authors Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan emphasizes decision-making and the effects of decisions. While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, Managerial Accounting goes further by covering the capabilities and techniques necessary for effective management practice, as well as fostering attitudes that typify integrity, honesty, and fairness.

KEY TOPICS:

The Manager and Management Accounting; An Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes; Cost--Volume--Profit Analysis; Job Costing; Process Costing and Cost Allocation; Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management; Pricing Decisions, Customer Profitability, and Cost Management; Determining How Costs Behave; Decision Making and Relevant Information; Quality, Inventory Management, and Time; Capital Investments; Master Budget and Responsibility Accounting; Flexible Budgets, Cost Variances, and Management Control; Strategy, Balanced Scorecard, and Strategic Profitability Analysis; Transfer Pricing; Performance Measurement and Compensation

MARKET:

Managers and business owners who want to learn practical techniques for managerial accounting.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137024878
• ISBN13: 9780137024872
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.7" x 10.9"