Management and Cost Accounting (8^th Ed.)

This bestseller text offers clear, simple-to-understand and comprehensive coverage of management and cost accounting.

Management and Cost Accounting, 8th edition brings together techniques, concepts and practices in a way that is readable and with language that is easy to follow. Keeping its international focus, the text includes a wealth of case studies featuring companies from around the world, and offers up-to-date coverage of the most contemporary aspects affecting management accounting today, such as a greater emphasis on sustainability, as well as AI, automation and other technologies.

Packed with illustrations, examples and real-life applications, this book will help you learn about the aspects of management accounting that are essential in your study and your future performance in the workplace.

Key Features

• Up-to-date coverage of the impact of digitalisation and application of new technologies, including blockchain systems, artificial intelligence and more.
• Sustainability practices are now given more space with new examples covering topics such as renewable energy and initiatives to lessen environmental impact.
• A wealth of resources, including professional accountancy practice exercises, and end-of-chapter questions, provide opportunities to learn and develop exam ability.
• A range of new real-life applications in ?Concepts in Action? boxes show how managers use accounting techniques in the business world.
• Harvard Business School and other cutting-edge case studies illustrate how management accounting is deployed in different types of enterprise across the globe.

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Alnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting and Director of the South Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Charles T. Horngren was the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Accounting at Stanford University.

Srikant M. Datar is the Dean of Harvard Business School.

Madhav V. Rajan is the Dean of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Hallmark features of this title

Incorporates the latest concepts and practices, offering students a learning package that brings the subject to life

• A wide range of examples from real organisations expand your students's understanding of how managers around the globe use techniques, make decisions and put strategies into action.
• A contemporary approach to the role of management accountants emphasises their part in the strategic decision-making of a business, and their work in the context of achieving wider business goals.
• The comprehensive content and features help your students link theoretical knowledge to recent developments, including the impact of digitalisation and application of newer technologies such as AI, automation, blockchain systems, and the Internet of Things.