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Table of contents

1. Accounting and the Financial Statements.
2. The Accounting Information System.
3. Accrual Accounting.
4. Internal Control and Cash.
5. Sales and Receivables.
6. Cost of Goods Sold and Inventory.
7. Operating Assets Financial.
8. Current and Contingent Liabilities.
9. Long-Term Liabilities.
10. Stockholders' Equity Financial.
11. The Statement of Cash Flows.
12. Financial Statement Analysis.
13. Managerial Accounting Concepts and Decision-Making Support.
14. Cost Behavior.
15. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis: A Managerial Planning Tool. Making the Connection: Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit
Analysis for Many Glacier Hotel.
16. Job-Order Costing.
17. Process Costing.
18. Activity-Based Costing & Management.
19. Profit Planning.
20. Standard Costing: A Managerial Control Tool. Making the Connection: Cost System Choices, Budgeting, andVariance Analyses for Sacred Heart Hospital.
21. Flexible Budgets and Overhead Analysis.
22. Performance Evaluation, Variable Costing,  and Decentralization.
23. Short-Run Decision Making: Relevant Costing and Inventory Management.
24. Capital Investment Decisions.
25. Relevant Costing, Cost-Based Pricing, Cost
Behavior, and Net Present Value Analysis.
Appendix Financial Statement Information: Abercrombie & Fitch.
Appendix Financial Statement Information: Aeropostale.
Appendix Time Value of Money.
Appendix International Financial Reporting Standards.
Glossary.
Check Figures.
Index.

1392 pages