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Designed for use in introductory or graduate-level managerial accounting courses, this text applies an objective-based approach to managerial accounting topics. Unlike traditional cost-accounting texts, Management Accounting emphasizes the critical role that information plays in decision making, strategy execution, and overall enhancement of a firm's value. Through problem-based learning and the business planning model (BPM), Management Accounting develops in students those competencies expected of today's business professionals. This innovative pedagogical approach stresses the understanding and application of the basic business process; risk assessment and its relation to business strategy; critical thinking, reasoning, and analysis; oral and written communication skills; and techniques for team building.

Noah P. Barsky is an accounting professor at Villanova University. He earned undergraduate and masters degrees in accounting at the Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He is a certified public accountant and certified management accountant. Dr. Barsky has authored four books and published numerous articles in academic and professional journals. Anthony H. Catanach, Jr. is a retired professor of accounting at Villanova University, as well as an adjunct professor in the Villanova University School of Law. He also served as a Pew Scholar and Carnegie Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Professor Catanach obtained his undergraduate and masters degrees in accounting from the University of New Mexico and his Ph.D. from Arizona State University.