Managerial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses (Hardcover)

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This classic text for MBA programs offers balanced coverage of concepts, methods, and uses of managerial accounting with an increasingly strong emphasis on strategic management issues. This approach helps to focus on concepts and managerial uses of financial information rather than techniques of cost accounting. The Seventh Edition emphasizes strategic management decisions, increased coverage of process improvement, integration of financial reporting issues for management decision making, and application of managerial accounting tools to emerging areas like e-commerce, service sector, government, and nonprofits in examples and problem material.

About the Author

Michael W. Maher, Ph.D., is Professor of Management and Accounting at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. Prior to teaching at Davis, Dr. Maher taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. He received his bachelor's degree in accounting from Gonzaga University and his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Washington (Seattle). He has experience in public accounting (CPA-inactive, state of Washington), has co-managed his own business, and consulted with numerous companies and governmental bodies. Dr. Maher has been active in the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, including service as president. He has authored numerous books, including Cost Management (with Ron Hilton and Frank Selto), Cost Accounting and Internal Control in US Corporations (with Bob Mautz et al). He has published articles in Management Accounting, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, British Accounting Review, and numerous other journals. He has won the Competitive Manuscript Award, the AICPA/AAA Notable Contribution to the Literature Award, the Outstanding Tax Manuscript Award, three teaching awards at UC Davis, and the Outstanding Alumni Award from Gonzaga University. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 672 pages
• Publisher: Saunders College Pub; 7th edition (August 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0030259630
• ISBN-13: 978-0030259630
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,250,104 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing, frustrating, poor review of topics, July 7, 2008

By	Kronos - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managerial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses (Hardcover)

This was a good beginners book, so I have no complaints about the first few chapters. But as you progress to the second and last third of the book, the exercises become progressively and unfairly difficult, and not because they are meant to challenge us. Instead, they are just poorly written.

Problems in textbooks should illuminate, not obfuscate key topics in the chapter. When a major problem asks you to calculate out a complex situation, there should be more explicit and explanatory examples in the chapter text in order for a good student to go back and teach himself the principles that the authors are trying to test, instead of struggling to figure out what they are asking to begin with. Other managerial accounting books are much better at illuminating even the basic ideas that students like us need to learn, not to mention to complex accounting practices on exams.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not outstanding., February 28, 2007

By	the g man "g" (Milwaukee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managerial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses (Hardcover)

I feel the authors have covered the topic well. As a read, I thought the text was written as good as an accounting can be.

The problem I shared with my classmates is that there was difficulty completing the exercises at the ends of the chapters. We feel maybe two reasons for this: first, the problems often could not be solved without looking forward to the chapters not yet covered; and second, specific details needed to solve problems were either not there or organized in an unfamiliar way. This required asking many questions with the instructor and classmates to try to complete the exercises.

Overall, though, I suppose this is on par with other texts on the topic. The book we liked the best was "Accounting: what the numbers mean" as it was written & organized very well; and the exercises were very effective.

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This review is from: Managerial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses (Hardcover)

Great service and book was brand new as described. I liked fact that book was well wrapped even inside mailing envelope. Very pleased!