"Chapters 1-17."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Managerial accounting, the business organization, and professional ethics -- Introduction to cost behavior and cost-volume relationships -- Measurement of cost behavior -- Cost management systems and activity-based costing -- Relevant information for decision making with a focus on pricing decisions -- Relevant information for decision making with a focus on operational decisions -- Introduction to budgets and preparing the master budget -- Flexible budgets and variance analysis -- Management control systems and responsibility accounting -- Management control in decentralized organizations -- Capital budgeting -- Cost allocation -- Accounting for overhead costs -- Job-order costing and process-costing systems -- Basic accounting : concepts, techniques, and conventions -- Understanding corporate annual reports : basic financial statements -- Understanding and analyzing consolidated financial statements.