Managerial Accounting - 18th Edition - Garrison, Noreen, and Brewer

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Managerial Accounting, 18th edition by Garrison, Noreen, and Brewer, highlights innovations designed to prepare students for managerial career paths. The edition builds on a clear, concise narrative and integrates Data Analytics Exercises, Integrated Excel, and a robust, auto-gradable Connect assessment package. New content includes an engaging continuing case centered on Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, plus Entrepreneur Spotlights and communicating-with-data-visualizations features across chapters. Inclusive guidelines and assessment best practices reduce bias and broaden diverse representation.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages3

Reading Time8 min

AccessFree to download

Prologue: Managerial Accounting: An Overview

1. Managerial Accounting and Cost Concepts

2. Job-Order Costing: Calculating Unit Product Costs

3. Job-Order Costing: Cost Flows and External Reporting

4. Process Costing

5. Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships

6. Variable Costing and Segment Reporting: Tools for Management

7. Activity-Based Costing: A Tool to Aid Decision Making

8. Master Budgeting

9. Flexible Budgets and Performance Analysis

10. Standard Costs and Variances

11. Responsibility Accounting Systems

12. Strategic Performance Measurement

13. Differential Analysis: The Key to Decision Making

14. Capital Budgeting Decisions

15. Statement of Cash Flows

16. Financial Statement Analysis

Integration Exercises: An Overview

Managerial Accounting 18th Edition Garrison, Noreen, and Brewer ISBN: 9781266248610 / 1266248617 / ©2024 As the \#1 best-seller in Managerial Accounting, the 18th edition of Garrison/Noreen/Brewer's Managerial Accounting continues to innovate in the ways it sets up students for their future career paths. Known for its clear and concise narrative, Garrison’s 18th edition continues to be cutting edge through the incorporation of Data Analytics Exercises, Integrated Excel, and a robust assessment package all incorporated and auto-gradable within Connect. New to this edition, follow an engaging continuing case featuring a real, mission driven company, Howdy Homemade Ice Cream. New franchise co-author, Norma Montague’s contributions sharpened the diversity, inclusion, and ESG topic coverage throughout the text through the In Business boxes, Entrepreneur Spotlights, and language choices focused on eliminating generalizations and stereotypes around gender, abilities/disabilities, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, diversity of names, and age. Features New Features ■ Added an Entrepreneur Spotlight in all chapters. ■ Added a Communicating with Data Visualizations feature in all chapters. ■ Added two new data analytics exercises in the back of each chapter. ■ Added author-created instructional videos for each learning objective throughout the book, plus an overview video for each chapter. ■ A new Continuing Case in Connect that follows managerial accounting decisions at a real company. Howdy Homemade Ice Cream is a real company, and the Asheville, NC franchise that forms the foundation for this case study is owned and operated by author Pete Brewer. The serial case study that spans most of the textbook’s chapters enables students to see that managerial accounting provides an integrated set of tools that support organizational planning, control, and decision-making. ■ Refreshed inclusive content guidelines were implemented to eliminate any generalizations and stereotypes around gender, abilities/disabilities, race/ ethnicity, sexual orientation, diversity of names, and age. In addition, best practices in assessment creation were employed to eliminate cultural, cognitive, and affective bias. More diverse voices were also involved in the review and creation of the content. Retained Features ■ Excel Analytics: In Excel Analytics, students work with complex data sets; filter data; learn Excel functionality such as Goal Seek, Pivot Tables, and Solver; and build data visualizations that tell the accounting and analytics story. These activities go beyond basic data manipulations and Excel skills by asking students to think critically and holistically about the story they have created. ■ Tableau Dashboard Activities allow students to explore live Tableau dashboards directly integrated into Connect through interactive filters and menus as well as auto-graded, analysis-based questions. Students can check their understanding and apply what they are learning within the framework of analytics and critical thinking. ■ Connect Only Test-Bank: An online test bank available in Connect contains more than 1,600 author-created multiple-choice questions. Additionally, these Connect-only questions arepresented in a combination of static and algorithmic (both quantitative and qualitative algo) and they cover all learning objectives for each chapter. The questions are qualitative and quantitative in nature, and they span the entire "degree-of-difficulty"continuum, including easy, medium, and hard. ■ Audio Hints are available for certain problems in Connect and offer brief explanations of the key steps students need to solve a specific end-ofchapter problem. With callouts to individual chapter learning objectives, audio hints are both a helpful tool for completing an assignment as well as an additional opportunity for students to link their work back to the chapter content. ■ SmartBook 2.0: Available within Connect, person

FAQs

What new learning components are introduced in the 18th edition?

The edition adds an Entrepreneur Spotlight in all chapters, a Communicating with Data Visualizations feature, and two new data analytics exercises in the back of each chapter.

What is the continuing case study in Connect based on?

The continuing case follows managerial accounting decisions at a real company, Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, using the Asheville, NC franchise owned and operated by author Pete Brewer as the foundation.

How does the book address inclusivity and reduce bias?

Refreshed inclusive content guidelines eliminate generalizations and stereotypes across multiple dimensions, and assessment creation best practices are used to reduce cultural, cognitive, and affective bias.

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