Managerial Accounting for Dummies

✍ Scribed by Holtzman M.P.

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 363
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Are you enrolled in a managerial accounting class and finding yourself struggling? Fear not! Managerial Accounting For Dummies is the go-to study guide to help you easily master the concepts of this challenging course. Youll discover the basic concepts, terminology, and methods to identify, measure, analyze, interpret, and communicate information in the pursuit of an organizations goals. Tracking to a typical managerial accounting course and packed with easy-to-understand explanations and real-life examples, Managerial Accounting For Dummies explores cost behavior, cost analysis, profit planning and control measures, accounting for decentralized operations, capital budgeting decisions, ethical challenges in managerial accounting, and much more. Covers the key concepts and tools needed to communicate accounting information for managerial decision-making within an organization Plain-English explanations of managerial accounting terminology and methods Tracks to a typical college-level managerial accounting course Managerial Accounting For Dummies makes it fast and easy to grasp the concepts needed to score your highest in a managerial accounting course.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Introducing Managerial Accounting
The Role of Managerial Accounting
Using Managerial Accounting in Your Business
Understanding and Managing Costs
Classifying Costs
Figuring Cost of Goods Manufactured and Sold
Teaching Costs to Behave: Variable and Fixed Costs
Allocating Overhead
Job Order Costing: Having It Your Way
Process Costing: Get In Line
Using Costing Techniques for Decision-Making
Straight to the Bottom Line: Examining Contribution Margin
Capital Budgeting: Should You Buy That?
Reality Check: Making and Selling More than One Product
The Price Is Right: Knowing How Much to Charge
Spreading the Wealth with Transfer Prices
Planning and Budgeting
Master Budgets: Planning for the Future
Flexing Your Budget: When Plans Change
Using Managerial Accounting for Evaluation and Control
Responsibility Accounting
Variance Analysis: To Tell the Truth
The Balanced Scorecard: Reviewing Your Business’s Report Card
Using the Theory of Constraints to Squeeze Out of a Tight Spot
The Part of Tens
Ten Key Managerial Accounting Formulas
Ten Careers in Managerial Accounting
Ten Legends of Managerial Accounting

Index

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✦ Subjects

Финансово-экономические дисциплины;Бухгалтерский учет;Управленческий учет;