Overview
Main description
Learn the essentials of management accounting in a flash!
This hands-on self-teaching guide covers the
fundamentals of management accounting,
including cost accounting, how to develop and
use information for costing products and services,
decision making, operational budgeting,
performance evaluation, and other important
subjects and provides an update on recent developments in the field. You will learn the key
aspects of management accounting as they apply
to both for-profit companies and nonprofits.
Author comments
Leonard Eugene Berry, Ph.D., C.I.A., is Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus in the School of Accountancy at Georgia State University. He is also a retired C.P.A.
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The fast and easy way to learn management accounting!
Now anyone can grasp the fundamentals of management accounting--without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In Management Accounting Demystified, retired CPA and accounting professor Leonard Eugene Berry provides an effective, illuminating, and entertaining way to learn this complex subject.
This self-teaching guide first explains how and why management accounting is at the intersection of accounting information and decision-making. Then, you’ll get details on cost allocation systems, cost analysis, profit planning, operational budgeting, performance evaluations, and more. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this book will teach you the ins-and-outs of management accounting in no time at all.
Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Management Accounting Demystified is your shortcut to a working knowledge of this important business topic.
This hands-on, self-teaching text offers:
- An easy way to understand management accounting
- Hundreds of worked examples with solutions
- A quiz at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses
- A final exam at the end of the book
- No unnecessary technical jargon
- A time-saving approach to performing better on an exam or at work!
