Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-Making Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	About the Author
Pt. I	Context of Accounting	1
1	Introduction to Accounting	3
2	Accounting and its Relationship to Shareholder Value and Business Structure	13
3	Recording Financial Transactions and the Limitations of Accounting	25
4	Management Control, Management Accounting and its Rational-Economic Assumptions	37
5	Interpretive and Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Decision-Making	55
6	Constructing Financial Statements and the Framework of Accounting	67
Pt. II	Using Accounting Information for Decision-Making, Planning and Control	81
7	Interpreting Financial Statements and Alternative Theoretical Perspectives	83
8	Marketing Decisions	103
9	Operating Decisions	121
10	Human Resource Decisions	141
11	Accounting Decisions	155
12	Strategic Investment Decisions	181
13	Performance Evaluation of Business Units	195
14	Budgeting	207
15	Budgetary Control	225
Pt. III	Supporting Information	245
16	Research in Management Accounting, Conclusions and Further Reading	247
17	Introduction to the Readings	253
	Glossary of Accounting Terms	369
App	Questions and Case Studies	381
	Author Index	467
	Subject Index	469