Accounting for managers : interpreting accounting information for decision making / Paul M. Collier

Content includes:

PART I : Context of Accounting
1 Introduction to
2 Accounting and its Relationship to Shareholder Value and Corporate Governance
3 Recording Financial Transactions and the Principles of Accounting
4 Management Control, Accounting, and its Rational -Economic Assumptions
5 Interpretive and Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Decision Making

Part II : The Use of Financial Statements for Decision Making
6 Constructing Financial Statements: IFRS and the Framework of Accounting
7 Interpreting Financial Statements
8 Accounting for Inventory

PART III : Using Accounting Information for Decision Making, Planning, and Control
9 Accounting and Information Systems
10 Marketing Decisions
11 Operating Decisions
12 Human Resource Decisions
13 Overhead Allocation Decisions
14 Strategic Investment Decisions
15 Performance Evaluation of Business Units
17 Budgetary Control
18 Strategic Management Accounting

PART IV : Supporting Information
Readings

Glossary of Accounting Terms
Solutions to Questions

Includes index