Managerial Accounting for Dummies

  • 3h 56m
  • Mark P. Holtzman
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2013

The easy way to master a managerial accounting course

Are you enrolled in a managerial accounting class and finding yourself struggling? Fear not! Managerial Accounting For Dummies is the go-to study guide to help you easily master the concepts of this challenging course. You'll discover the basic concepts, terminology, and methods to identify, measure, analyze, interpret, and communicate information in the pursuit of an organization's goals.

Tracking to a typical managerial accounting course and packed with easy-to-understand explanations and real-life examples, Managerial Accounting For Dummies explores cost behavior, cost analysis, profit planning and control measures, accounting for decentralized operations, capital budgeting decisions, ethical challenges in managerial accounting, and much more.

  • Covers the key concepts and tools needed to communicate accounting information for managerial decision-making within an organization
  • Plain-English explanations of managerial accounting terminology and methods
  • Tracks to a typical college-level managerial accounting course

Managerial Accounting For Dummies makes it fast and easy to grasp the concepts needed to score your highest in a managerial accounting course.

About the Author

Mark P. Holtzman, PhD, CPA, is Chair of the Department of Accounting and Taxation at Seton Hall University. He has taught accounting at the college level for 17 years and runs the Accountinator website at www.accountinator.com, which gives practical accounting advice to entrepreneurs.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • The Role of Managerial Accounting
  • Using Managerial Accounting in Your Business
  • Classifying Costs
  • Figuring Cost of Goods Manufactured and Sold
  • Teaching Costs to Behave—Variable and Fixed Costs
  • Allocating Overhead
  • Job Order Costing—Having it Your Way
  • Process Costing—Get in Line
  • Straight to the Bottom Line—Examining Contribution Margin
  • Capital Budgeting—Should You Buy That?
  • Reality Check—Making and Selling More than One Product
  • The Price is Right—Knowing How Much to Charge
  • Spreading the Wealth with Transfer Prices
  • Master Budgets—Planning for the Future
  • Flexing Your Budget—When Plans Change
  • Responsibility Accounting
  • Variance Analysis—To Tell the Truth
  • The Balanced Scorecard—Reviewing Your Business's Report Card
  • Using the Theory of Constraints to Squeeze Out of a Tight Spot
  • Ten Key Managerial Accounting Formulas
  • Ten Careers in Managerial Accounting
  • Ten Legends of Managerial Accounting
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