Management Accounting

Author: Kim Langfield-Smith,Helen Thorne,David Smith,Ronald Hilton
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Australia
Category: General
Age Group: 15+

Management Accounting explains the contemporary role of management accounting in business and demonstrates how it creates and enhances value. This seventh edition continues to help students build a strong foundation in management accounting by showing how the theory translates into real-world application. Technical accuracy is once again a hallmark of this market-leading and trusted resource.

This edition has been thoroughly updated including revisions of sustainability reporting and social responsibility, and numerous case studies of real-world practices from Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Brand new and revised end-of-chapter activities provide students with the opportunity to apply what they are learning in real-world situations.

This edition combines authoritative, peer-reviewed content with superior educational technology. The pedagogical framework from the text continues inside the powerful Connect platform to provide a closely integrated learning solution. Interactive algorithmic activities with refreshable data sets provide almost unlimited opportunity for students to practice and receive immediate feedback.

Table Of Contents
1. Management Accounting: Information for creating value and managing resources

2. Management Accounting: Cost terms and concepts

3. Cost behaviour, cost drivers and cost estimation

4. Product costing systems

5. Process costing and operation costing

6. Service costing

7. A closer look at overhead costs

8. Activity-based costing

9. Budgeting systems

10. Standard costs for control: direct material and direct labour

11. Standard costs for control: flexible budgets and manufacturing overheads

12. Financial performance reports and transfer pricing

13. Financial performance measures for investment centres, and reward systems

14. Contemporary approaches to measuring and managing performance

15. Managing suppliers and customers

16. Managing costs and quality

17. Sustainability and management accounting

18. Cost profit volume analysis

19. Information for tactical decisions

20. Pricing and product mix decisions

21. Information for capital expenditure decisions
About Kim Langfield-Smith
KIM LANGFIELD-SMITH
Kim has a BEc from the University of Sydney, a MEc from Macquarie University
and a PhD from Monash University, and is a fellow of CPA Australia and the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA). She is Deputy Dean
(Research) and Professor of Management Accounting in the Faculty of Business
and Economics at Monash University, Australia and her prior appointments
were at La Trobe University, the Universities of Melbourne and Tasmania, and
the University of Technology, Sydney. Before entering academic life Kim worked
as an accountant in several commercial organisations.
Her research interests are in the area of management control systems.
She has published articles in many referred journals in the accounting and
management fields, including Accounting, Organizations and Society; Journal of
Management Accounting Research; Management Accounting Research; Behavioral
Research in Accounting; Journal of Accounting Literature; and Journal of
Management Studies. Kim sits on several editorial boards and was President
(Australia) of the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand
(AAANZ), now known as the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia
and New Zealand (AFAANZ), from 1999 to 2001.
Kim continues to play an active role in the profession. She is chair of the
Professional Qualifications Advisory Committee of CPA Australia, and a
member of the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB),
representing the ICAA and CPA Australia.
HELEN HELEN THORNE
Helen has a BEc and DipAcc from Flinders University, and a PhD from the
University of Adelaide. She is an adjunct professor in the International
Graduate School of Business at the University of South Australia. Helen has also
held appointments in the Graduate School of Management and the Commerce
Department at the University of Adelaide.
Her research focuses on contemporary approaches to management
accounting, including activity-based costing and strategic performance
measurement systems, and she has published in referred journals in these areas,
including Journal of Accounting Literature; Journal of Cost Management; Advances
in Management Accounting; and Australian Accounting Review.
Before commencing her academic career, Helen worked as a management
accountant with a major international company. Since then she has maintained
her interests in the 'real world'. She is a member of CPA Australia and has
undertaken consulting work in management accounting for a number of
organisations in the manufacturing and service industries. Ronald W. Hilton is a Professor of Accounting at Cornell University. With bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University, he received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.

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Brand McGraw-Hill Education / Australia
Artist / Author Kim Langfield-Smith, Helen Thorne, David Smith, Ronald Hilton
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