Suitable for upper level advanced management or cost accounting courses at the undergraduate or MBA/graduate level. Assumes knowledge of management and/or cost accounting.

This text provides leading-edge treatment of innovative management accounting issues used by major companies throughout the world. Takes a systematic management- oriented approach to advanced management topics. Each chapter is accompanied by cases to illustrate the concepts discussed.

Features

NEW - Comprehensive coverage of Activity-Based-Costing and the Balanced Scorecard method as the unifying framework throughout the text. ABC and BSC link formerly unrelated topics and chapters.

• NEW - New chapters, 4 and 8.
• NEW - Transfer pricing, chapter 9 updated to reflect more modern approaches.
• NEW - Chapter 10 will prominently feature Economic Value Added (EVA).
• NEW - New cases illustrating ABC and the Balanced Scorecard will be incorporated throughout.
• NEW - Topics no longer central issues in today's environment have been deleted—i.e., joint costs and extensive variance analysis.
• NEW - EasyABC Quick software (a $50.00 value) can be packaged at no cost with new copies of the text purchased.
• NEW - Second edition chapters 10 and 11 have been consolidated into a new chapter 11, Measuring Performance from Customer and Internal Business Process Perspective.

New to this Edition

• Comprehensive coverage of Activity-Based-Costing and the Balanced Scorecard method as the unifying framework throughout the text. ABC and BSC link formerly unrelated topics and chapters.
• New chapters, 4 and 8.
• Transfer pricing, chapter 9 updated to reflect more modern approaches.
• Chapter 10 will prominently feature Economic Value Added (EVA).
• New cases illustrating ABC and the Balanced Scorecard will be incorporated throughout.
• Topics no longer central issues in today's environment have been deleted—i.e., joint costs and extensive variance analysis.
• EasyABC Quick software (a $50.00 value) can be packaged at no cost with new copies of the text purchased.
• Second edition chapters 10 and 11 have been consolidated into a new chapter 11, Measuring Performance from Customer and Internal Business Process Perspective.