Managerial Accounting

by James Jiambalvo

Recognizing that most students will pursue careers as managers not accountants, Managerial Accounting omits topics of less importance and concentrates on the key accounting concepts that managers need to understand in order to make successful, informed decisions. Managerial Accounting focuses attention on decision making through incremental analysis and performance measurement. Students are motivated to learn managerial accounting by connecting concepts and techniques to the real world; using real cases and real manager's comments on real company issues. Students and instructors alike have praised this text's clear and concise writing style, to-the-point discussions, illustrated ideas, and examples that are presented to make ideas concrete

Genres: School

624 pages, Hardcover

First published May 4, 2000

Reviews

[Mark Oppenlander · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't like college text books that talk down to their readers as if they're in middle school. I also dislike textbooks that exhibit strong biases in the teaching of relatively straightforward factual subject matter. This book commits both of those sins. Someone needs to tell Dean Jiambalvo that just because a business decision increases profits, that does not necessarily make it optimal - or even the right decision! The (good) accountants and managers I know are looking at more variables than that.

[Mikayla · Rating 2 out of 5]

Textbook for graduate Managerial Accounting. I liked how the book was laid out and the information was easy to read. Some ways to solve problems were easier and some were more confusing. In companion to this, we had videos to watch and the videos were more helpful than the textbook. Not my favorite textbook for one of my graduate classes.

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Used for my accounting for management class.

[Emma Schiller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some helpful topics such as assessing customer profitability, activity based accounting, and choosing products to manufacture based on demand and costs.

[Xiangyuan Zeng · Rating 5 out of 5]

good