Ronald W. Hilton and David E. Platt
<p>"The 11th edition of Managerial Accounting focuses on teaching students to use accounting information to best manage an organization. Each chapter is written around a realistic business or focus company that guides the reader through the topics of that chapter. The em¬phasis throughout the text is on using accounting information to help manage an organization, while explaining concepts in a way that students can relate to.</p><p>The traditional tools of managerial accounting such as budgeting and product costing have been updated with current approaches. Emerg¬ing topics such as environmental cost management, monetizing the Internet, and time-driven activity-based costing are also discussed.</p><p>SALIENT FEATURES</p><p>• Focus Companies: A hallmark features of this book, one focus company per chapter approach illustrate key concepts.</p><p>• Contrast Company: Present in each chapter, this feature allows even greater emphasis on service-industry firms and other non-manufacturing environments. </p><p>• Focus on Ethics: This feature poses ethical dilemmas or discusses ethical issues.</p><p>• Updated Pedagogy: Revised pedagogical features are streamlined and contain condensed explanations. </p><p>• Completely Revised ‘Build a Spreadsheet’: This popular feature has been completely revised for the eleventh edition."</p>
