TY - BOOK AU - Proctor,Ray AU - Burton,Nigel AU - Pierce,Adrian AU - Burmiston,Gary AU - Proctor,Ray TI - Managerial accounting: decision making and performance improvement SN - 9780273764489 (pbk.) : AV - HF5657.4 .P763 2012 U1 - 658.1511 PRO PY - 2012/// CY - Harlow PB - Pearson KW - Business planning KW - Textbooks KW - Managerial accounting KW - Business and Management KW - ukslc KW - Accounting KW - thema KW - Management accounting & bookkeeping N1 - Previous ed.: published as Managerial accounting for business decisions. Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2009; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1.Foundations -- 1.Cost behaviour -- 2.The difference between profit and cash -- Part 2.Financial management -- 3.Ratio analysis and financial management -- 4.Working capital management -- Part 3.Decision making -- 5.Variable costing and breakeven analysis -- 6.Short-term decisons using variable costing -- 7.Short-term decisions using relevant costing -- 8.Capital investment appraisal for long-term decisions -- Part 4.Product costing and pricing -- 9.Product costs using absorption costing -- 10.Product costs using activity-based costing -- 11.Comparison of profits under absorption and variable costing -- 12.Pricing your products -- 13.Divisional performance and transfer pricing -- Part 5.Business performance management -- 14.Budgets and their creation -- 15.Using budgets to control operations -- 16.Budgets, behaviour and beyond budgeting -- 17.Balanced scorecards -- 18.Performance improvement techniques N2 - The objective of this book is to make you a better manager by enabling you to understand and apply managerial accounting techniques effectively. The main topics are discussed in a logical order, often accompanied by an illustration of how each technique is applied. Answers to questions are given at the end of each chapter ER -