Managerial Accounting

A Professor of Accounting at Cornell University, Professor Hilton teaches in the areas of managerial accounting and cost management systems. With bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University, he received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. A Cornell faculty member since 1977, Professor Hilton also has taught accounting at Ohio State and the University of Florida, where he held the position of Walter J. Matherly Professor of Accounting. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, Hilton worked for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company and served as an officer in the United States Air Force. Professor Hilton is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants and has been active in the American Accounting Association. He has served as associate editor of The Accounting Review and as a member of its editorial board. Hilton also has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Accounting Research. He has been a member of the resident faculties of both the Doctoral Consortium and the New Faculty Consortium sponsored by the American Accounting Association. With wide-ranging research interests, Hilton has published articles in many -journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, -Management Science, Decision Sciences, The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Mathematical Psychology. Author of Managerial Accounting, he also has published a monograph in the AAA Studies in Accounting Research series, is a co-author of Budgeting: Profit Planning and Control, and is a co-author of Cost Accounting: Concepts and Mana-ge-rial Applications. Professor Hilton's current research interests focus on contemporary cost management systems and international issues in managerial accounting. In recent years, he has toured manufacturing facilities and consulted with practicing managerial accountants in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Chapter 1 The Changing Role of Managerial Accounting in a Dynamic Business Environment Chapter 2 Basic Cost Management Concepts and Accounting for Mass Customization Operations Chapter 3 Product Costing and Cost Accumulation in a Batch Production Environment Chapter 3 Appendix Activity-Based Costing: An Introduction Chapter 4 Process Costing and Hybrid Product-Costing Systems Chapter 4 Appendix Process Costing in Sequential Production Departments Chapter 5 Activity-Based Costing and Cost Management Systems Chapter 6 Activity-Based Management and Today's Advanced Manufacturing Environment Chapter 7 Activity Analysis, Cost Behavior, and Cost Estimation Chapter 7 Appendix Finding the Least-Squares Regression Estimates Chapter 8 Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Chapter 8 Appendix Effect of Income Taxes Chapter 9 Profit Planning, Activity-Based Budgeting, and e-Budgeting Chapter 9 Appendix Inventory Management Chapter 10 Standard Costing, Operational Performance Measures and the Balanced Scorecard Chapter 10 Appendix Use of Standard Costs for Product Costing Chapter 11 Flexible Budgeting and the Management of Overhead and Support Activity Costs Chapter 11 Appendix A Standard Costs and Product Costing Chapter 11 Appendix B Sales Variances Chapter 12 Responsibility Accounting, Quality Control and Environmental Cost Management Chapter 13 Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing Chapter 14 Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits Chapter 14 Appendix Linear Programming Chapter 15 Target Costing and Cost Analysis for Pricing Decisions Chapter 16 Capital Expenditure Decisions Chapter 16 Appendix A Future Value and Present Value Tables Chapter 16 Appendix B Impact of Inflation Chapter 17 Absorption, Variable and Throughput Costing Chapter 17 Appendix Effect of the Volume Variance under Absorption and Variable Costing Chapter 18 Allocation of Support Activity Costs and Joint Costs Chapter 18 Appendix Reciprocal-Services Method Appendix I Compound Interest and the Concept of Present Value Appendix II References for Management Accountants: In Their Own Words