This book is an invitation to study managerial uses of accounting infonnation. Three themes
run throughout. First, the accounting system is profitably thought of as a library of financial …

This book helps readers see how managerial accounting concepts are used in business to
make decisions. By presenting actual accounting decisions made in companies like Target …

A perspective on the past is vital to charting a course for the future. As the accounting
profession embarks on renewed efforts to improve financial accounting and reporting, it has …

T iEm potential value of information in planning, in control, and in decision making
empirically seems to exhibit itself: 1) in contributing directly to choice, 2) in improving one's …

From the Publisher: This Fourth Edition analyzes the vital role of computerized accounting
information systems in today's business world. Intended for the accounting major, covers …

ALTHOUGH the decade of the 1960s has been described by Carl Nelson as a goldenn age
in the history of a priori research in accounting"[Nelson, 1973. p. 4], the works cited as …