Using the Harvard Case
Method, Accounting for Managers covers both financial and managerial topics in one term.
It is designed for use at the graduate (MBA) level, or by advanced undergraduates and/or
advanced AACSB schools. While this textbook does not ask the student to know everything
accountants do, it does introduce them to the terminology forms and formats of financial
statements and accounting analyses and illustrations. This approach is employed so the
students can comprehend much of what goes on. Accounting for Managers will prepare your
students to deal with the current and future developments which face accountants and
managers in situations where complex financial transactions, events, and status must be
communicated.
Benefits:
An emphasis on financial
reporting from a user-perspective.
Use of Case Studies! Case
studies are used as the major learning tool. This enables students to experience
second-level learning (about companies and industries), in addition to learning how to
solve problems and provide information to managers and external parties.
Short Chapters. Students
spend the majority of time in analyzing and resolving accounting issues.
Accounting for Managers
includes a broad introduction to management as a use of accounting information.
NEW! Two new sections
on Managerial Accounting have been added (Part 4.- Cost Concepts and Analysis, and, Part
6. - Analysis for Capital Investment Decisions)
NEW! Twenty new
cases are included.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I. AN OVERVIEW OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL REPORTING
The Accounting Framework, Financial Statements, and Some Accounting Concepts
Case: Chemalite, Inc. Introduction to Accounting Records
Case: Hanson Ski Products
Case: Thumbs Up Video, Inc.
Case: Monterrey Manufacturing Company
Introduction to Financial Ratios and Financial Statements
Case: Indentify the Industries - 1996
Case: Colgate-Palmolive Company
HOW ACCOUNTANTS MEASURE AND REPORT
Accounting for Current Assets
Case: LIFO or FIFO? That is the Question
Recognizing Revenues and Expenses: When is Income Earned?
Case: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Case: Circuit City Stores, Inc. (A)
Case: Intel Pentium Chip Controversy (A)
Accounting for Property, Plant, Equipment and Other Assets
Case: Depreciation at Delta Air Lines and Singapore Airlines (A)
Case: Depreciation at Delta Air Lines and Singapore Airlines (B)
Case: Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc.
Case: Buying Time Liabilities and Time
Case: Laurinburg Precision Engineering
Case: Belgrave Corporation
Case: Accounting for Frequent Flyers
Introduction to Owner's Equity
Case: FMC Corporation Solving the Puzzle of the Cash Flow Statement
Case: Statement of Cash Flows: Three Examples
Case: Crystal Meadows of Tahoe, Inc.
MANAGING FINANCIAL REPORTING. Auditors and Their Opinions
Case: Total Fitness, Inc. (A) Esperanto for Accountants
Case: WPP Group and Its Acquisitions. Diversity in Accounting Principles
Case: Kendall Square Research Corporation (A)
Case: Harnischfeger Corporation
COST CONCEPTS AND ANALYSIS
Understanding Costs for Management Decisions
Case: Precision Worldwide, Inc.
Case: Lille Tissages, SA
Case: Prestige Telephone Company
A Brief Introduction to Cost Accounting
Case: Hilton Manufacturing Company
PRODUCT COSTING AND AN INTRODUCTION TO COST MANAGEMENT
Accounting for Indirect Costs
Case: Seligram, Inc.: Electronic Testing Operations
Activity Accounting: Another Way to Measure Costs
Case: Destin Brass Products Co
Case: Siemens Electric Motor Works (A)
Case: Kanthal (A). Standard Costs and Variance Analysis
Case: Waltham Motors Division
Case: Mile High Cycles
Case: Polysar Limited
PART SIX: ANALYSIS FOR CAPITAL INVESTMENT DECISIONS
Basic Capital Investment Analysis
Case: Riverbend Telephone Company
Case: Reto S.A.
Case: The Super Project
PART SEVEN: MEASUREMENTS FOR MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Control in an Age of Empowerment
Case: Indianapolis: Implementing Competition in City Services
Case: Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (A)
Case: Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.: Planning and Control System
Responsibility Centers and Performance Measurement
Case: Western Chemical Corporation The Balanced Scorecard - Measures that Drive
Performance
Case: Chadwick, Inc.
\REVIEW CASES
Consulting Partners & Co. King's Mountain Distillery, Inc.
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