Introduction to Management Accounting, Chap. 1-17 (13th Edition) (Charles T Horngren Series in Accounting) (Ch. 1-17) [Hardcover]

Charles T. Horngren (Author), Gary L. Sundem (Author), William O. Stratton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 25, 2004 | ISBN-10: 013144073X | ISBN-13: 978-0131440739 | Edition: 13

Get refreshed with Horngren/Sundem/Stratton's Introduction to Management Accounting, 13th Edition. This best-selling book offers a relevant, real-world decision-making approach to management accounting. Readers develop a solid understanding of costs and cost behavior and the use of cost information for planning and control decisions, not just inventory valuation. This book emphasizes the notion that “You need to understand the business first, before you can understand the accounting of business.” Updated to cover the most recent methods in management accounting, topics include: cost behavior, cost management systems, and activity-based costing; marketing and product decisions; the master budget; flexible budget and variance analysis; management control systems; capital budgeting; cost allocation; andjob-costing and process-costing systems; basic accounting concepts, techniques, and conventions; corporate financial reports and basic financial statements; and consolidated financial statements. An excellent reference resource for managerial accountants.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This edition recognizes the current trends in management accounting and clearly presents the basic concepts and techniques. Although basic concepts in management accounting have not changed dramatically, the application of those concepts has been significantly influenced by a competitive world environment and significant changes in the cost accounting systems used by large companies and corporations. The focus of the text remains the understanding of costs and cost behavior and the use of cost information for planning and control decisions. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Get Refreshed . . . with Horngren/Sundem/Stratton's Introduction to Management Accounting, Twelfth Edition

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 864 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 13 edition (March 25, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013144073X
• ISBN-13: 978-0131440739
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Start as a novice, end as an 'expert', May 8, 2000

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This review is from: Introduction to Management Accounting (Hardcover)

'The difference between profit and loss is the difference between costs and turnover' was a saying of my professor. But this book shows that there are lots of different calculations of those profits and loss. This book learns the reader step by step new ways to calculate the turnover and the costs, budgets, planning and presenting of the figures everyone is waiting for. Thanks to the exercises the basic calculations can be practiced and the cases present a first brief introduction what is going on in the real world, focusing on a special topic, but without removing the students freedom.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very decent book, April 13, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Introduction to Management Accounting Chapters 1-19 (Hardcover)

I read and reread, this is very good in presenting concepts and illustrating through examples. Very interesting exercises. I am keeping this book for future reference. It could use some reorgnization of chapters. Seem like authors were not sure what concepts to present in what chapter as all of them were overlayed, perhaps justified in attempting to present the concept in understandble way

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars incredibly useful, March 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Introduction to Management Accounting (Hardcover)

As a (Dutch) consultant in the Russian Federation, I always suggest the Russian management teams I meet to use this book for the clearest introduction to cost accounting techniques.