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Management accounting : information that creates value -- cost management concepts and cost behavior -- Traditional cost management systems -- Activity-based cost systems -- Management accounting information for activity and process decisions -- cost information for pricing and product planning -- Management accounting and control systems : assessing performance over the value chain -- Motivating behavior in management accounting and control systems -- The balanced scorecard -- Using budgets to achieve organizational objectives -- Capital budgeting : long-term assets -- Financial control

"A revision of a visionary introduction to management accounting. This full-color, well-illustrated and heavily supplemented textbook is intended for sophomores or first-year MBAs. Thoroughly modern treatment focuses on the uses of accounting information to assist managers in making decisions in all aspects of their business activities. This book is oriented toward the modern user's approach that addresses how business managers need to use management accounting information."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE