1. Introduction to management accounting
2. Relevant costs and benefits for decision making
3. Cost–volume–profit analysis
4. Full costing
5. Costing and cost management in a competitive environment
6. Budgeting
7. Accounting for control
8. Making capital investment decisions
9. Managing risk
10. Strategic management accounting: performance evaluation and pricing in a competitive environment
11. Measuring divisional performance
12. Managing working capital

Understand management accounting principles and techniques, and develop skills to make informed business decisions

Management Accounting for Decision Makers 10th edition by Peter Atrill and Eddie McLaney makes management accounting relevant and practical through its use of real numerical accounting techniques, an increased number of exercises that encourage you to learn in an active way, and through a range of relevant, real-world examples, many of which are new to this edition.

Key features of the book include:

• Helps make sense of real accounting issues with relevant, real-life examples
• Enable group work and individual learning & revision with helpful pedagogical features seamlessly woven into the text
• Updated content reflecting changes in the field, including developments in AI and the future of budgeting in a changing business landscape

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Peter Atrill is a freelance academic and author who has worked with leading institutions in the UK, Europe and South-East Asia. As well as working as a business consultant, he was previously Head of Business and Management and Head of Accounting and Law at Plymouth Business School.

Eddie McLaney is an academic author with several years’ experience of teaching Accounting and Finance. He was formerly the Accounting Subject Group Leader and Principal Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Plymouth Business School.

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• A step-by-step approach with a range of real-world examples, provide the framework for successful decision-making.
• A focus on decision-making prepares students for a business career.
• A comprehensive structure consolidates your students' learning, enabling individual learning & group work.

• The Introductions in each chapter set the learning objectives for your students.
• Regular Examples and Activities sections stimulate student thinking.
• Chapters conclude with a summary containing key points, Self-Assessment Question boxes, and Critical Review Questions.
• End-of-chapter exercises cover a range of levels allowing students to develop their critical thinking skills.

• New and updated real-world examples add variety and interest to the subject with the use of arresting new data and scenarios, helping students understand the theory as it actually is applied in practice in the business environment.
• New and fresh content incorporates current developments, including AI and the future of budgeting.
• Up-to-date information takes the Global Management Accounting Principles into account published by CGMA, ensuring the principles in the book tie-up with professional standards.

• The revised Regular Examples and Activities sections stimulate your students' thinking, chosen to come at the most necessary points in each chapter.
• Refreshed Critical Review Questions at the end of each chapter now include new questions for this edition, encouraging your students to pull together and apply knowledge of management accounting concepts they are learning.
• Thoroughly revised and updated end-of-chapter exercises and integrated activities throughout the book provide excellent opportunities to test your student's knowledge of core ideas and develop their critical thinking skills.