Managerial Accounting
Author: James Jiambalvo
The text is current, concise, and clearly written, with cases at the end of each chapter to illustrate the material.
* An interactive CD lets students test and expand their understanding with multiple-choice questions, key term matching exercises, demonstrations of various concepts and techniques, critical thinking exercise, interactive cases, and videos.
* A dynamic Web site provides test study guides, exercises, games, web testing, relevant articles, from The Wall Street Journal and other sources linked to the text, links to relevant web sites, additional cases, and other materials.
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A text/CD-ROM package on how to use accounting information in planning, control, and decision making. There is special focus on incremental analysis and measurement. Coverage includes manufacturing costs, process costing, capital budgeting decisions, budgetary planning, and decentralization. The CD-ROM contains videos of real companies and their use of managerial accounting, interactive cases, multiple-choice questions, matching and critical thinking exercises, and demonstrations of concepts and techniques. The author teaches accounting at the University of Seattle. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | Managerial Accounting in the Information Age | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Job-Order Costing and Modern Manufacturing Practices | 31 |
| Ch. 3 | Process Costing | 79 |
| Ch. 4 | Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis | 111 |
| Ch. 5 | Variable Costing | 163 |
| Ch. 6 | Cost Allocation and Activity-Based Costing | 187 |
| Ch. 7 | The Use of Cost Information in Management Decision Making | 235 |
| Ch. 8 | Pricing Decisions, Analyzing Customer Profitability, and Activity-Based Princing | 275 |
| Ch. 9 | Capital Budgeting Decisions | 297 |
| Ch. 10 | Budgetary Planning and Control | 339 |
| Ch. 11 | Standard Costs and Variance Analysis | 381 |
| Ch. 12 | Decentralization and Performance Evaluation | 417 |
| Ch. 13 | Analyzing Financial Statements: A Managerial Perspective | 463 |
| Glossary | 499 | |
| Photo Credits | 505 | |
| Index | 507 |
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Economics: Private and Public Choice
Author: James D Gwartney
ECONOMICS: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHOICE includes many more engaging elements-such as scenes from popular movies and applications of economic theory to real-world issues-to help you see how these theories apply to the world around you. Each chapter has been updated to reflect today's market, including analysis and explanation of measures of current economic activity. You'll also find highlights of the lives of notable economists and how they contributed to the thinking that shapes our markets today. Common economic myths are dispelled, and the "invisible hand" metaphor is applied to economic theory, demonstrating how it's working even today to stimulate the economy. This 12th edition includes new technology features such as a robust set of online multimedia learning tools, including video clips and free quizzes designed to support your classroom work; a completely updated Aplia interactive learning system with practice problems, interactive tutorials, online experiences, and more.
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This book/CD-ROM text seeks to make economics understandable to freshman and sophomore undergraduates and to illustrate the relevance of economics in daily life. Core chapters cover material usually taught in economics principles courses, and include short units (designed for one class period) on topics such as the future of social security, and readings which highlight the organizational and institutional factors that underlie economic prosperity. The CD-ROM contains a graphing workshop and animated tutorials, interactive graphing exercises, video lectures on difficult topics, and video news segments. Gwartney teaches economics at Florida State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Part 1 | The Economic Way of Thinking | 1 |
| Chapter 1 | The Economic Approach | 4 |
| Chapter 2 | Some Tools of the Economist | 27 |
| Part 2 | Markets and Governments | 53 |
| Chapter 3 | Supply, Demand, and the Market Process | 56 |
| Chapter 4 | Supply and Demand: Applications and Extensions | 86 |
| Chapter 5 | The Economic Role of Government | 112 |
| Chapter 6 | The Economics of Collective Decision Making | 130 |
| Part 3 | Core Macroeconomics | 153 |
| Chapter 7 | Taking the Nation's Economic Pulse | 156 |
| Chapter 8 | Economic Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Inflation | 180 |
| Chapter 9 | An Introduction to Basic Macroeconomic Markets | 200 |
| Chapter 10 | Working With Our Basic Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Model | 224 |
| Chapter 11 | Keynesian Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics | 247 |
| Chapter 12 | Fiscal Policy | 267 |
| Chapter 13 | Money and the Banking System | 290 |
| Chapter 14 | Modern Macroeconomics: Monetary Policy | 319 |
| Chapter 15 | Stabilization Policy, Output, and Employment | 346 |
| Chapter 16 | Economic Growth | 369 |
| Part 4 | International Economics | 393 |
| Chapter 17 | Gaining from International Trade | 397 |
| Chapter 18 | International Finance and the Foreign Exchange Market | 421 |
| Part 5 | Core Microeconomics | 445 |
| Chapter 19 | Demand and Consumer Choice | 448 |
| Chapter 20 | Costs and the Supply of Goods | 476 |
| Chapter 21 | Price Takers and the Competitive Process | 502 |
| Chapter 22 | Price-Searcher Markets with Low Entry Barriers | 525 |
| Chapter 23 | Price-Searcher Markets with High Entry Barriers | 545 |
| Chapter 24 | The Supply of and Demand for Productive Resources | 572 |
| Chapter 25 | Earnings, Productivity, and the Job Market | 592 |
| Chapter 26 | Investment, the Capital Market, and the Wealth of Nations | 610 |
| Chapter 27 | Income Inequality and Poverty | 628 |
| Part 6 | Beyond the Basics | 647 |
| Special Topic 1 | Government Spending and Taxation | 650 |
| Special Topic 2 | The Internet: How Is it Changing the Economy? | 661 |
| Special Topic 3 | The Economics of Social Security | 671 |
| Special Topic 4 | The Stock Market: What Does It Do and How Has It Performed? | 682 |
| Special Topic 5 | The Federal Budget and the National Debt | 695 |
| Special Topic 6 | Labor Market Policies and the Natural Rate of Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis | 707 |
| Special Topic 7 | The Phillips Curve: Is There a Trade-off Between Inflation and Unemployment? | 719 |
| Special Topic 8 | The Economics of Health Care | 731 |
| Special Topic 9 | School Choice: Can It Improve the Quality of Education in America? | 743 |
| Special Topic 10 | Is Discrimination Responsible for the Earnings Differences Between Men and Women? | 751 |
| Special Topic 11 | Do Labor Unions Increase the Wages of Workers? | 757 |
| Special Topic 12 | How Does Government Regulation Affect Your Life? | 770 |
| Special Topic 13 | Natural Resources and the Future | 781 |
| Special Topic 14 | Economics and the Environment | 792 |
| Appendix A | General Business and Economic Indicators | 803 |
| Appendix B | Answers to Selected Critical Analysis Questions | 813 |
| Glossary | 837 | |
| Credits | 848 | |
| Index | 851 |
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