Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Pauline Weetman's innovative text expertly guides students over the stepping stones of management accounting and provides a solid foundation across first and second levels as a basis for further specialist study. The text is clear, well structured and brings an imaginative approach to student learning with its emphasis throughout on allowing students to practice the application of theory.

Fully supported by a comprehensive suite of student and lecturer resources, including cases with teaching notes, questions and multiple choice questions, PowerPoint slides, lecture notes, graded questions, and solutions to questions in the book. To utilize this excellent online resource visit: www.pearsoned.co.uk\weetman .

Management Accounting aims to provide continuity of study over first and second levels in specialist accounting programmes while preserving the generality of coverage that is suitable for business studies degrees. The text is also suitable for professional courses where management accounting is introduced for the first time.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part 1 Defining, reporting and managing costs
• 1 What is management accounting?
• 2 Classification of costs
• 3 Materials and labour costs
• 4 Overhead costs
• 5 Absorption costing and marginal costing
• 6 Job costing
• 7 Recording transactions in a job costing system
• 8 Process costing
• Part 2 Decision making
• 9 Short-term decision making
• 10 Relevant costs, pricing, and decisions under uncertainty
• 11 Capital investment appraisal
• 12 Capital budgeting applications
• Part 3 Performance measurement and control
• 13 Preparing a budget
• 14 Control through budgeting
• 15 Standard costs
• 16 Performance evaluation and feedback reporting
• 17 Divisional performance
• Part 4 Financial management and strategic planning
• 18 Financial management: working capital and business plans
• 19 Business strategy and management accounting
• Appendix I Quick check list: A glossary of management accounting terms
• Appendix II Solutions to numerical and technical questions in Management Accounting

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Pauline Weetman BA, BSc (Econ), PhD, CA, FRSE, is Professor of Accounting at the University of Edinburgh, and has extensive experience of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, with previous chairs held at Stirling, Heriot-Watt, Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities. She received the Distinguished Academic Award of the British Accounting Association in 2005. She has convened the examining board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and was formerly Director of Research at ICAS.