As future managers and business professionals, students need a clear understanding of how accounting will help them analyze and interpret critical information. Their ability to make smart decisions is a valuable skill as they strive for success in today's competitive business environment. Managerial Accounting: Information for Decisions vividly illustrates how accounting contributes to the activities and accomplishments of the entire organization.
       To assist you, the instructor, in educating your students, we have integrated strong pedagogical elements throughout the text. These elements put managerial accounting topics in context to help students visualize their role in the "real world." Highlighted below are some of the most significant learning aids.

Section M1 Systems for Product Costing and Dexision Making
M1 Managerial Accounting Systems for Accounting
and Management Decisions
M2 Cost Categories and Folws
M3 Producing Goods and Services : Batch
Processing
,etc.

Section M2 Cost Evaluation and Performance
M8 The Budgeting Process--Planning Business
Activities
M9 Cost Variances and Quality Management
,etc.