Comprehensive Textbook of Financial Cost and Management Accounting for the students of M.B.A. and M.C.A.

Management Accounting in Support of Strategy explores how management accounting can support the strategic management process of analysis, formulation, implementation, evaluation, monitoring, and control. If the management accountant is to add value to the business they need to understand how the business works. The toolbox available to the management accountant does not just contain the accounting techniques, but also includes the strategy models and frameworks described in this book. Armed with this array of tools the management accountant is well placed to add significant value to the business. The reader will gain an understanding of the strategic management framework, strategic models and tools, and how management accounting can support the strategic management process. It will be beneficial for undergraduate and postgraduate course students studying strategy or management accounting. The book will also enable practicing accountants to understand how they can make a significant contribution to the success of their organization by demonstrating how management accounting can be used in support of strategy.

Whether students pursue a professional career in accounting or in other areas of management, they will interact with accounting systems. In all organizations, managers rely on management accounting systems to provide information to deal with changes in their operating environment. This book provides students and managers with an understanding and appreciation of the strengths and limitations of an organization’s accounting system, and enables them to be intelligent and critical users of the system. The text highlights the role of management accounting as an integral part of the organization’s strategy and not merely a set of individual concepts and computations. An analytical framework for organizational change is used throughout the book to underscore how organizations must adapt to create customer and organizational value. This framework provides a way to examine and analyze the organization’s accounting system, and as a basis for evaluating proposed changes to the system. With international examples that bring the current business environment to the forefront, problems and cases to promote critical thinking, and online support for students and instructors, Management Accounting in a Dynamic Environment is no mere introductory textbook. It prepares readers to use accounting systems intelligently to achieve organizational success. The authors have identified several cases to accompany each chapter in the textbook. These are available through Ivey Publishing: https://www.iveycases.com/CaseMateBookDetail.aspx?id=434

AUDIENCE: For upper level undergraduate and MBA Management Accounting courses. APPROACH: Atkinson is a managerially-oriented book that focuses on both quantitative and qualitative aspects of classical and contemporary managerial accounting. COMPETITORS: Garrison, MH;

Suitable for students studying both traditional and new Management Accounting techniques, this text takes its readers beyond just the traditional accounting techniques, to place accounting information and the role of the Management Accountant in a broader organizational context.

Accounting for Management is a comprehensive textbook designed especially for post graduate students of business management. It takes a practice oriented approach to explaining the core concepts of accounting, with the help of numerous illustrations and solved examples. The book is divided in to five parts and provides a comprehensive coverage of financial accounting, cost accounting and management accounting. Part I on Basic Financial Accounting discusses accounting concepts, accounting books and entries, corporate reporting. Part II on Financial Management covers financial statement analysis, fund flow and cash flow analysis, working capital management, and capital budgeting. Part III on Cost Accounting includes introduction to cost accounting, material cost control, overhead cost allocation, activity based costing etc. The following part (IV) on Management Accounting enumerates the cost volume profit relationship, decision making and pricing. The book concludes with Part V on Planning, Control and Performance Measurement that discuses standard costing, budgetary control, responsibility accounting, among other topics. The book will also be useful for business and accounting professionals for its optimal mix of theory and practice.