Management Accounting: United States Edition - Hardcover

Atkinson, Anthony A.; Kaplan, Robert S.; Young, S. Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130082171 ISBN 13: 9780130082176

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

For undergraduate and MBA courses in management accounting.

Each of the text authors is both a scholar and a top consultant for Fortune 500 and smaller companies. As a result, they have a unique focus: to help students better understand management accounting topics, research, and issues from the perspective of a business manager.

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Each of the text authors―Anthony A. Atkinson, Robert S. Kaplan, and S. Mark Young―is both a scholar and a top consultant for Fortune 500 and smaller companies. As a result, they have a unique focus: to help readers better understand management accounting topics, research, and issues from the perspective of a business manager.

• New Chapter 9, "The Balanced Scorecard." This is the only textbook available to offer an authoritative, comprehensive, single-chapter treatment of this topic.
• New Reorganization of chapters. Chapters 1-3 have been rewritten and revised into two new chapters. Chapter 1. "Management Accounting: Information That Creates Value" and Chapter 2, "Cost Management Concepts and Cost Behavior."
• Revised Chapter 4, "Activity-Based Cost Systems." Written by Bob Kaplan, this is the most complete ABC chapter in any management accounting textbook.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130082171
• ISBN 13: 9780130082176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 624