Fundamentals of Cost Accounting - Lanen, William N. / Anderson, Shannon / Maher, Michael W
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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.
Table of contents:
Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Cost Accounting: Information for Decision Making
Chapter 2: Cost…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
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.

Table of contents:
Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Cost Accounting: Information for Decision Making
Chapter 2: Cost Concepts and Behavior
Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Cost Analysis for Decision Making
Chapter 5: Cost Estimation
Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Product and Service Costing
Chapter 7: Job Costing
Chapter 8: Process Costing
Chapter 9: Activity-Based Costing
Chapter 10: Fundamentals of Cost Management
Chapter 11: Service Department and Joint Cost Allocation
Chapter 12: Fundamentals of Management Control Systems
Chapter 13: Planning and Budgeting
Chapter 14: Business Unit Performance Measurement
Chapter 15: Transfer Pricing
Chapter 16: Fundamentals of Variance Analysis
Chapter 17: Additional Topics in Variance Analysis
Chapter 18: Nonfinancial and Multiple Measures of Performance
Appendix: Capital Investment Decisions: An Overview
Autorenporträt
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