Managerial Accounting or Hard Times on Kairiru Island

Managerial Accounting

Author: James Jiambalvo

The text is current, concise, and clearly written, with cases at the end of each chapter to illustrate the material.
* An interactive CD lets students test and expand their understanding with multiple-choice questions, key term matching exercises, demonstrations of various concepts and techniques, critical thinking exercise, interactive cases, and videos.
* A dynamic Web site provides test study guides, exercises, games, web testing, relevant articles, from The Wall Street Journal and other sources linked to the text, links to relevant web sites, additional cases, and other materials.

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A text/CD-ROM package on how to use accounting information in planning, control, and decision making. There is special focus on incremental analysis and measurement. Coverage includes manufacturing costs, process costing, capital budgeting decisions, budgetary planning, and decentralization. The CD-ROM contains videos of real companies and their use of managerial accounting, interactive cases, multiple-choice questions, matching and critical thinking exercises, and demonstrations of concepts and techniques. The author teaches accounting at the University of Seattle. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Managerial Accounting in the Information Age	1
Ch. 2	Job-Order Costing and Modern Manufacturing Practices	31
Ch. 3	Process Costing	79
Ch. 4	Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis	111
Ch. 5	Variable Costing	163
Ch. 6	Cost Allocation and Activity-Based Costing	187
Ch. 7	The Use of Cost Information in Management Decision Making	235
Ch. 8	Pricing Decisions, Analyzing Customer Profitability, and Activity-Based Princing	275
Ch. 9	Capital Budgeting Decisions	297
Ch. 10	Budgetary Planning and Control	339
Ch. 11	Standard Costs and Variance Analysis	381
Ch. 12	Decentralization and Performance Evaluation	417
Ch. 13	Analyzing Financial Statements: A Managerial Perspective	463
	Glossary	499
	Photo Credits	505
	Index	507

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Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village

Author: Michael French Smith

This book follows the difficult lives of people living in the village of Kragur in Papua New Guinea. They have been in poverty since European contact and now must find a way to become prosperous.