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Get your students where they need to be with CORNERSTONES OF MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING, 5e, International Edition. Cornerstones delivers a truly unique learning system that is integrated through the entire introductory managerial accounting journey -- ensuring students will leave the course with the knowledge they need to be future business leaders. Students are guided through: Building A Strong Foundation: Students need to build a strong foundation of the fundamentals before they can move forward in this course. The unique Cornerstones approach gets them through the fundamentals FASTER so that they can transition to analyzing and applying concepts. Understanding Relationships: Rather than focusing on concepts in isolation, students should understand accounting as a system and recognize how the end result changes based on how the numbers affect each other. CORNERSTONES aids students in this step as an important part in training them to be good decision makers. Making Decisions: Armed with the knowledge they have gained from working through the other aspects of the Cornerstones approach, students are now given the tools to bring their knowledge full-circle and practice making good business decisions. Students love this approach because it presents materials the way they learn. Instructors love it because it gets students to master the foundations more quickly and allows more time to learn and apply the analysis and decision making of accounting. Get There with Cornerstones!

Cornerstones of Managerial Accounting

1. Introduction to Managerial Accounting.
2. Basic Managerial Accounting Concepts.
3. Cost Behavior.
4. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis: A Managerial Planning Tool.
5. Job-Order Costing.
6. Process Costing.
7. Activity-Based Costing and Management.
8. Absorption and Variable Costing, and Inventory Management.
9. Profit Planning.
10. Standard Costing: A Managerial Control Tool.
11. Flexible Budgets and Overhead Analysis.
12. Performance Evaluation and Decentralization.
13. Short-Run Decision-Making: Relevant Costing.
14. Capital Investment Decisions.
15. Statement of Cash Flows.
16. Financial Statement Analysis.