March 2012
Beginner to intermediate
580 pages
18h 25m
English
book
Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision Making, 4th Edition
by Paul M. Collier
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Index
4 Ps marketing strategy
5 forces (Porter)
Absolute profit
Absorption costing
Academic research
Accountability
Accountant, fundamental principles
Accounting
critical perspective
definitions
financial vs management
functions
history
human resource
lean
limitations
overview
principles
recent developments
role
Accounting entity
Accounting equation
Accounting in action
Accounting period
Accounting rate of return (ARR)
see also return on investment (ROI)
Accounting Standards Board (ASB)
Accounting system
Account types
Accruals accounting
see also matching principle
Accuracy, product costing
Acid test ratio
Activity-based budgeting (ABB)
Activity-based costing (ABC)
cost pools
Activity-based management (ABM)
Activity/efficiency ratio
Adaptation, change management
Advanced manufacturing technology (AMT)
Adverse selection
Advocacy threats
Agency theory
contract
rational-economic perspective
Alexander, D.
Allocation systems
cost accounting
two-stage systems
unavoidable costs
see also overhead allocation
Alternative perspectives
budgetary control
cybernetics
financial statements
Foucaultian perspective
functionalism
institutional theory
management accounting
natural perspectives
non-rational perspectives
radical perspectives
social constructionism
see also critical perspectives; interpretive perspectives;
rational-economic perspectives
Amazon
Amortization
Annual impairment test
Annual Reports
Ansoff, H.L.
Anthony, R.
Apple
Application controls
Arbitrary cost allocation
Armstrong, M. ...
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