Accounting for Decision Making and Control - Softcover

Zimmerman, Jerold L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007114885X ISBN 13: 9780071148856

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions), 1997

Synopsis

This text is designed for graduate level courses in managerial accounting. It makes use of the concept of opportunity cost, and the approach attempts to illustrate the tension created when accounting systems try to serve both decision making and control functions. This edition includes four more chapters which place emphasis on current topics, such as activity-based management, rather than the historical perspective of the first edition. The understanding of opportunity costs and organization theory is developed, and is applied to the analysis of specific topics such as budgets and standard costs. The coverage is non-technical in nature as it illustrates the inter-relations among changing accounting systems. Organizational functions including marketing, finance, and human resources are considered, and critical thinking and analytical skills are developed through actual company applications, current readings, cases and real world problems.

About this title

About the Author

Jerold Zimmerman is Ronald L. Bittner Professor at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

While at Rochester, Dr. Zimmerman has taught a variety of courses spanning accounting, finance, and economics. Accounting courses include nonprofit accounting, intermediate accounting, accounting theory, and managerial accounting. A deeper appreciation of the challenges of managing a complex organization was acquired by spending four years as Deputy Dean of the Simon School.

Professor Zimmerman publishes widely in accounting on topics as diverse as cost allocations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, disclosure, financial accounting theory, capital markets, and executive compensation.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 007114885X
• ISBN 13: 9780071148856
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 731