Management Accounting: Information for Decision-Making and Strategy Execution

by Robert S. Kaplan, Anthony A. Atkinson, S Mark Young, et al.

Book Overview

An approach to management accounting from the perspective of a business manager. Management Accounting: Information for Decision-Making and Strategy Execution explains how business managers can... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137024975
• ISBN13: 9780137024971
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Good book for my MBA course

This is an excellente book for Accounting studies in MBA courses. It is helping me a lot.

Loved it (but paid an absolute bargain)

I have the edition that has been translated into Dutch. It explained a lot of things for me. I find it easy to read and simple and very useful examples, but would like an answer book. I did pay a much lower price (under $15), this does affect my judgement. Use this book in conjunction with Cost Accounting by Horngren, Foster and Datar.

Need a textbook for Management Accounting? Here is one!!!!!

A very nice and neat accounting textbook! This book explains basic accounting concepts clearly, which helps me to master basic concepts of accounting with ease and simplicity. I had a great time to read this book, and it makes learning accounting as interesting as it can be. The introduction and summary of each chapter also help me to understand a big picture of management accounting as well as small details. The treatment of management accounting is thorough and highly advanced with many detailed examples in reality.The reason that I recommend this book is extending basic concepts with real-world examples which apples underlying concepts of management accounting. This book shows how accounting is used and analyzed in actual case situations. Especially I noticed that the authors are experts at the Balanced Scorecard. The Balanced Scorecard chapter presents the most important concept and examples in a very organized manner. This book also encompasses important new topics in management accounting such as activity-based cost systems, JIT, target costing, pricing and product planning, performance measurement systems, and budgets.I heard some textbooks too much focus on questions of calculating cost and deriving quantitative solutions. Unlike those textbooks which only teach mechanical procedures without understanding underlying factors, this textbook provides insightful knowledge about how management accounting information facilitates decision- making through various analysis tools.

A "must have" for your business library

My MBA program used this book. I found the book easy to read and liked its consideration of behavioral issues usually ignored in other books. The book covers new and important topics in management accounting (activity-based costing, balanced scorecard, JIT, target costing, kaizen costing, environmental costing and benchmarking). A companion book (Readings in Management Accounting) has lots of articles describing applications of material presented in the textbook.