Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors CHAPTER 1 How Management Accounting Information Supports Decision Making CHAPTER 2 The Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map CHAPTER 3 Using Costs in Decision Making CHAPTER 4 Accumulating and Assigning Costs to Products CHAPTER 5 Activity-Based Cost Systems CHAPTER 6 Measuring and Managing Customer Relationships CHAPTER 7 Measuring and Managing Process Performance CHAPTER 8 Measuring and Managing Life-Cycle Costs CHAPTER 9 Behavioral and Organizational Issues in Management Accounting and Control Systems CHAPTER 10 Using Budgets for Planning and Coordination CHAPTER 11 Financial Control Glossary Subject Index Name and Company Index

For upper level undergraduate and MBA Management Accounting courses.An approach to management accounting from the perspective of a business manager.Atkinson presents state-of-the-art thinking on all of the major topics in management accounting including activity-based management, the Balanced Scorecard, target costing, and management control system design.Blending new theories and topics with the fundamentals. While Atkinson maintains its classic managerial accounting focus on planning and decision-making about product mix, customer mix, and capacity, it also includes new discussions relevant to some of the more modern topics in managerial accounting, including ethics, environmental issues, and life cycle costing and approaches. Presenting the concepts in context: Case Studies. Atkinson includes several case studies, as well as Harvard Business School cases. The Harvard Business School case studies present time-driven Activity Based Costing linked to strategy and activity based budgeting. There is also an Institute of Management Accounting case on how Mercedes-Benz used target costing to develop its new SUV.Chapter-Opening Vignettes. Based on a real company that describes realistic business problems, these chapter-opening vignettes help students see how understanding the material in the chapter can help in the business world.

About the Book Chapter 2 explains how to develop strategy maps, and the Balanced Scorecard to describe and communicate the strategies of for-profit and non-profit enterprises. Fundamental cost concepts leading to use of time-driven activity-based costing for managing product profitability and linking to resource capacity planning and budgeting. An entirely new chapter on measuring and managing customer performance with financial and nonfinancial information. Expanded treatment of life-cycle costing, including developing relevant financial and nonfinancial information for the product development process. This package includes MyAccountingLab, an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to personalize learning and improve results. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts. Real World Accounting Video Series. Connect course concepts to the real world. The Real World Accounting Videos feature real, emerging companies that demonstrate financial and managerial accounting concepts. Students can see how the course topics are applied in recent start-ups or companies that began small and are now a household name. These engaging videos help students further understand the course material and also demonstrate how Accounting will apply to their future careers. Adaptive Learning. Not every student learns the same way and at the same rate. And now, thanks to advances in adaptive learning technology, you no longer have to teach as if they do. MyLab & Mastering with Adaptive Learning assesses student performance and activity in real time and, using data and analytics, personalizes content to reinforce concepts that target each student’s strengths and weaknesses. New Question Types. MyAccountingLab offers the flexibility to assign problems through a variety of question types. That pool of types has now been enhanced to include Final Answer questions, Open Response questions, Algorithmic Testbank questions, and General Ledger questions.