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

Fundamentals of Cost Accounting

Buch | Hardcover
704 Seiten
2007 | 2nd edition
McGraw-Hill Professional (Verlag)
978-0-07-352672-0 (ISBN)
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Aims to help you learn cost accounting. This book focuses on the key concepts useful for students. It features opening vignettes and In Action boxes which show realistic applications of these concepts. It includes end-of-chapter problems as well as homework manager which provide students with the practice to learn each concept.
A direct, realistic, and efficient way to learn cost accounting. Fundamentals is short (608 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. Opening vignettes and In Action boxes show realistic applications of these concepts throughout. Comprehensive end-of-chapter problems plus Homework Manager provide students with all the practice they need to fully learn each concept.

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

Brief Table of ContentsChapter 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: Nonfinancial and Multiple Measures of PerformanceAppendix: Capital Investment Decisions: An Overview

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.10.2007
Sprache englisch
Maße 224 x 282 mm
Gewicht 1672 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Controlling / Kostenrechnung
ISBN-10 0-07-352672-X / 007352672X
ISBN-13 978-0-07-352672-0 / 9780073526720
Zustand Neuware
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