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Principles of Accounting, Volume 2: Managerial Accounting

Suitable Age Group: Ages 18–21

Grade Reference

🇺🇸 United States College Freshman – College Senior
🇬🇧 United Kingdom University Year 1 – University Year 4
🇮🇳 India B.Com. Year 1 – B.Com. Year 4
🇳🇬 Nigeria University Year 1 – University Year 4
🇿🇦 South Africa University Year 1 – Honours
🇦🇺 Australia University Year 1 – Honours
🇨🇦 Canada University Year 1 – University Year 4

About This Textbook

This textbook is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Students are immersed in the “why” as well as the “how” aspects of accounting in order to reinforce concepts and promote comprehension over rote memorization.

Table of Contents

Accounting as a Tool for Managers — Building Blocks of Managerial Accounting — Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis — Job Order Costing — Process Costing — Activity-Based, Variable, and Absorption Costing — Budgeting — Standard Costs and Variances — Responsibility Accounting and Decentralization — Short-Term Decision Making — Capital Budgeting Decisions — Balanced Scorecard and Other Performance Measures — Sustainability Reporting