Fundamentals of Cost Accounting - William Lanen, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher

Fundamentals of Cost Accounting

Buch | Softcover
800 Seiten
2016 | 5th edition
McGraw-Hill Education (Verlag)
978-1-259-92128-5 (ISBN)
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Provides a direct, realistic, and efficient way to learn cost accounting, integrated with new technology learning tools. In this book, the 'Decision' opening vignettes and 'Business Application' boxes show realistic applications of these concepts throughout.
Fundamentals of Cost Accounting provides a direct, realistic, and efficient way to learn cost accounting, integrated with new technology learning tools. Fundamentals is short (approximately 700 pages) making it easy to cover in one semester. The authors have kept the text concise by focusing on the key concepts students need to master. The Decision opening vignettes and Business Application boxes show realistic applications of these concepts throughout. All chapters conclude with a Debrief that links the topics in the chapter to the decision problem faced by the manager in the opening vignette. Comprehensive end-of-chapter material provides students with all the practice they need to fully learn each concept.McGraw-Hill Connect Accounting Plus provides students every advantage as they strive to understand the key concepts of cost accounting and its role in business. Connect Accounting Plus offers a complete digital solution with a robust online learning and homework management system, an integrated media-rich eBook, assignable end-of-chapter material, algorithmic functionality, and reporting capabilities.

Contained within Connect Accounting is McGraw-Hill's adaptive learning system, LearnSmart, which is designed to help students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge for greater success.

William Lanen is the KPMG Professor of Accounting Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He previously taught at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his AB from the University of California-Berkeley, MS from Purdue University, and his PhD from the Wharton School. He has taught cost accounting to undergraduates, MBA students, and executives, including in global programs in Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia. He has also served as the director of the Office of Action-Based Learning at the Ross School of the University of Michigan. His research focuses primarily on performance evaluation and reward systems. Shannon Anderson is the Michael and Joelle Hurlston Presidential Chair and professor of management at the University of California-Davis. Previously she taught at Rice University, the University of Melbourne, and the University ofMichigan. She received her PhD from Harvard University and a BSE from Princeton University. Shannon has taught undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students a variety of courses on cost accounting, cost management, and management control. Her research focuses on the design and implementation of performance measurement and cost control systems. A Professor of Management at the University of California-Davis, Professor Maher previously taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and the University of Washington. He also worked on the audit staff at Arthur Andersen & Co. and was a self-employed financial consultant for small -businesses. He received his BBA from Gonzaga University (which named him Distinguished Alumnus in 1989), and his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, and earned the CPA from the state of Washington. Professor Maher is president of the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, and has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and Management Accounting. Co-author of two leading textbooks, Principles of Accounting and Managerial Accounting, Maher has co-authored several additional books and monographs, including Internal Controls in U.S. Corporations and Management Incentive Compensation Plans, and published articles in many journals, including Management Accounting, The Journal of Accountancy, The Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting Research, Financial Executive, and The Wall Street Journal. For his research on internal controls, Maher was awarded the American Accounting Association's Competitive Manuscript Award and the AICPA Notable Contribution to Literature Award. He has also received the award for the Outstanding Tax Manuscript, and from the students at the University of California's Graduate School of Management, he has received the Annual Outstanding Teacher Award three times and a special award for outstanding service twice

Chapter 1: Cost Accounting: Information for Decision MakingChapter 2: Cost Concepts and BehaviorChapter 3: Fundamentals of Cost-Volume-Profit AnalysisChapter 4: Fundamentals of Cost Analysis for Decision MakingChapter 5: Cost EstimationChapter 6: Fundamentals of Product and Service CostingChapter 7: Job CostingChapter 8: Process CostingChapter 9: Activity-Based CostingChapter 10: Fundamentals of Cost ManagementChapter 11: Service Department and Joint Cost AllocationChapter 12: Fundamentals of Management Control SystemsChapter 13: Planning and BudgetingChapter 14: Business Unit Performance MeasurementChapter 15: Transfer PricingChapter 16: Fundamentals of Variance AnalysisChapter 17: Additional Topics in Variance AnalysisChapter 18: Performance Measurement to Support Business StrategyAppendix: Capital Investment Decisions: An Overview

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort OH
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 274 mm
Gewicht 1436 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Controlling / Kostenrechnung
ISBN-10 1-259-92128-X / 125992128X
ISBN-13 978-1-259-92128-5 / 9781259921285
Zustand Neuware
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