Management Accounting

Principles and Applications

Management Accounting: Principles and Applications adopts a new and accessible approach to helping readers understand how management accounting contributes to decisions in a variety of organizational contexts. This book sets out clear explanations of practical management accounting techniques in the context of the application of these techniques to decisions. It recognizes practice through case studies and summarizes published research. Uniquely, it examines the analytical and critical issues that often influence decision makers operating within private and public sector organizations.

In Chapter 1 we explained the meaning and nature of management accounting,
described the scope and content of the discipline, discussed past and current
issues in management accounting and, finally, outlined the factors which are ...