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Accounting for managers : interpreting accounting information for decision making / Paul M. Collier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chichester : Wiley, 2012.Edition: 4th edDescription: xix, 558 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781119979678 (pbk.) :
  • 9781119979678 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.1511 COL
LOC classification:
  • HF5657.4 .C647 2012
Contents:
Part I.Context of accounting -- 1.Introduciton to accounting -- 2.Accounting and its relationship to shareholder value and corporate governance -- 3.Recording financial transactions and the principles of accounting -- 4.Management control, accounting and its reational-economic assumptions -- 5.Interpretive and critical perspectives on accounting and decision making -- Part II.The use of financial statements for decision making -- 6.Constructing financial statements: IFRS and the framework of accoutning -- 7.Interpreting financial statements -- 8.Accounting for inventory -- Part III.Using accounting information for decision making, planning and control -- 10.Marketing decisions -- 11.Operating decisions -- 12.Human resource decisions -- 13.Overhead allocation decisions -- 14.Strategic investment decisions -- 15.Performance evaluation of business units -- 16.Budgeting -- 17.Budgetary control -- 18.Strategic management accounting -- Part IV.Supporting information.
Summary: This work explains how accounting information is used by non-financial managers, emphasising interpretation, rather than construction and encouraging a critical perspective of the underlying assumptions behind accounting. It links theory with practical examples and case studies drawn from real business situations.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 658.1511 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 215758
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 658.1511 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 215757

Previous ed.: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I.Context of accounting -- 1.Introduciton to accounting -- 2.Accounting and its relationship to shareholder value and corporate governance -- 3.Recording financial transactions and the principles of accounting -- 4.Management control, accounting and its reational-economic assumptions -- 5.Interpretive and critical perspectives on accounting and decision making -- Part II.The use of financial statements for decision making -- 6.Constructing financial statements: IFRS and the framework of accoutning -- 7.Interpreting financial statements -- 8.Accounting for inventory -- Part III.Using accounting information for decision making, planning and control -- 10.Marketing decisions -- 11.Operating decisions -- 12.Human resource decisions -- 13.Overhead allocation decisions -- 14.Strategic investment decisions -- 15.Performance evaluation of business units -- 16.Budgeting -- 17.Budgetary control -- 18.Strategic management accounting -- Part IV.Supporting information.

This work explains how accounting information is used by non-financial managers, emphasising interpretation, rather than construction and encouraging a critical perspective of the underlying assumptions behind accounting. It links theory with practical examples and case studies drawn from real business situations.

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