Business Focus chapter-opening vignettes provide a real-world example for students, allowing them to see how the chapter’s information and insights apply to the world outside of the classroom.

In Business Boxes
These helpful boxed features offer a glimpse into how real companies use the managerial accounting concepts discussed within the chapter. Each chapter contains from three to fourteen of these current examples.

Managerial Accounting in Action Vignettes
These vignettes depict cross-functional teams working together in real-life settings, working with the products and services that students recognize from their own lives. Students are shown step-by-step how accounting concepts are implemented in organizations and how these concepts are applied to solve everyday business problems.

End-of-Chapter Material
Managerial Accounting has earned a reputation for the best end-of-chapter practice material of any text on the market. Our problem and case material continues to conform to AACSB recommendations and makes a great starting point for class discussions and group projects.

The NEW Foundational 15 end-of-chapter feature provides one set of data and fifteen building block questions relating to the quantitative topics covered in that particular chapter, allowing the student to work through and gain a practical understanding of the computational material.

Applying Excel end-of-chapter feature integrates key course concepts and Excel—a software students will encounter in the workplace, whether they go into accounting or any other business major. With Applying Excel, students not only gain practice working with Excel software, they also learn how Excel can be used to present accounting data and how that data is interrelated.

Power of Excel
Several chapters (Chapters 2, 8, and 13) now better highlight the dynamic nature and power of Excel as a tool for managerial accounting.

Author-Written Supplements
Unlike other managerial accounting texts, the book’s authors write all of the major supplements, ensuring a perfect fit between text and supplements.

• Instructor’s Manual

• Test bank

• Solutions Manual

Utilizing the Icons

• To reflect our service-based economy, the text is replete with examples from service-based businesses. A helpful icon distinguishes service-related examples in the text.

• The IFRS icon highlights content that may be affected by the impending change to IFRS and possible convergence between U.S. GAAP and IFRS.

• Ethics assignments and examples serve as a reminder that good conduct is vital in business. Icons call out content that relates to ethical behavior for students.

• The writing icon denotes problems that require students to use critical thinking as well as writing skills to explain their decisions.