Accounting Information for Managers

The essence of management accounting is decision-making. Good decisions require information. This book aims to provide managers with an important type of information- accounting information to be used in decision-making. The discipline it covers is often referred to as management or managerial accounting. Updated and extensively revised for the second edition Accounting Information for Managers explains the conceptual basis of accounting, setting out the key areas in management accounting and covers the variety of techniques available to provide relevant information to managers. Each chapter contains illustrations of these techniques. At the end of each chapter, there are discussion questions and problems to enhance the learning process.