Introduction to management accounting / Charles T. Horngren, Gary L. Sundem, David Burgstahler, Jeff Schatzberg.

Includes index and glossary.

I. FOCUS ON DECISION MAKING. 1. Managerial Accounting, the Business Organization, and Professional Ethics -- 2. Introduction to Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume Relationships -- 3. Measurement of Cost Behavior -- 4. Cost Management Systems and Activity-Based Costing -- 5. Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Pricing Decisions -- 6. Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Operational Decisions -- II. ACCOUNTING FOR PLANNING AND CONTROL. 7. Introduction to Budgets and Preparing the Master Budget -- 8. Flexible Budgets and Variance Analysis -- 9. Management Control Systems and Responsibility Accounting -- 10. Management Control in Decentralized Organizations -- III. CAPITAL BUDGETING. 11. Capital Budgeting -- IV. PRODUCT COSTING. 12. Cost Allocation -- 13. Accounting for Overhead Costs -- 14. Job-Costing and Process-Costing Systems -- V. BASIC FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING. 15. Basic Accounting: Concepts, Techniques, and Conventions -- 16. Understanding Corporate Annual Reports: Basic Financial Statements -- 17. Understanding and Analyzing Consolidated Financial Statements.