TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collier,Paul M.
TI  - Accounting for managers: interpreting accounting information for decision making 
SN  - 9781119979678 (pbk.) :
AV  - HF5657.4 .C647 2012
U1  - 658.1511 COL 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chichester
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Managerial accounting
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Finance & accounting
KW  - thema
KW  - Management accounting & bookkeeping
KW  - Management decision making
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -