Accounting for Managers

by Michael P. Murphy (Author), John J. Glynn (Author), John Perrin (Author)

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  1998

  $3.28

  This work is written from a managerial perspective for general managers on executive or MBA courses, and it is also appropriate for undergraduate business students. It focuses on accounting from the viewpoint of the needs of managers for financial information and understanding. The text covers the full range of accounting theory and practice of relevance to the general manager, avoiding technical aspects that are only of interest to accountants. It explores financial and management accounting from a management perspective, and relates accounting to practical management problems and decisions drawn both from the business world and from the public sector. The book minimizes the use of technical language, explains technical terms and includes an extensive glossary. Questions, for discussion or revision, and exercises are included at the end of chapters.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $7.79

  This introductory survey text is written to give students on executive or general MBA courses an overview of the role of accounting and finance in business, and is also suitable for undergraduates of business and management studies. The approch taken emphasises the conceptual underpinnings of the subject, and views it from the point of view of managers' need for information. Not least the book emphasises the increasing importance of general managers understanding the role played by their accounting and financial management colleagues. The book gives an appreciation of the three traditional subject divisions of financial accounting, management accounting and finance. The book is broad in scope and encompasses public sector as well as private sector organizations.