For advanced undergraduate or MBA Cost Management courses. Exemplifying today's leading edge practices, this collection of readings and cases analyzes the defects that exist with traditional cost management systems, and shows how to design systems that will benefit a wide range of organizations.

This book will help project managers figure out how costs interact with the general ledger and help them make decisions about whether to continue with the project as planned, find an alternative solution, or scrap the project altogether. This second edition includes updated information on Project Management and its link to Project Accounting.

Demonstrates the importance of the relationship between a physically lean enterprise and accounting. This work argues that to have continued success in increasingly competitive marketplace, businesses must streamline both their physical operations and accounting methods.

Revised in keeping with the new training package, it covers the competencies for both management and accounting modules. Includes two new chapters on process costing and differential costing to satisfy new course requirements. Student-friendly features include: learing objectives, key terms, simple explanations, self tests, and more.

For undergraduate and MBA students taking a Cost or Management Accounting course. Emphasizing the "different costs for different purposes," this text focuses on strategy and the decision making process.

Combines the hallmark features of the American text with a contemporary Australian business focus. The text features a revised and simplified five-step decision-making framework, to help students see how the demand for various types of management accounting information is a response to the decision-making needs of managers.

Accounting has been updated to include some of the most significant current issues in both the accounting field and the world today.

This manual contains the fully worked-out and accuracy-checked solutions for selected end-of-chapter problems in the text.