Accounting for Managers Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision Making
“Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision Making” by Paul M. Collier is a comprehensive resource published by John Wiley & Sons on June 8, 2015. This fifth edition spans 544 pages and is presented in English. The book focuses on how accounting is utilized by non-financial managers, emphasizing the interpretation of accounting information rather than its construction.
Readers will find that this edition encourages a critical approach to accounting techniques, highlighting the importance of understanding the assumptions and limitations inherent in various methods. It combines theoretical insights with practical examples and contemporary case studies from diverse sectors, including manufacturing, retail, and service industries. This book serves as a valuable resource for both postgraduate and undergraduate students, as well as non-financial managers seeking to enhance their understanding of accounting’s role in decision-making and organizational management.
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This revised and updated fifth edition of Accounting for Managers builds on the international success of the previous editions in explaining how accounting is used by non-financial managers.
Emphasizing the interpretation as opposed to the construction of accounting information, Accounting for Managers encourages a critical rather than unthinking acceptance of accounting techniques. Whilst accounting information is immensely valuable for planning, decision making and control, users need to recognize the assumptions behind, and the limitations of, particular accounting techniques.
As in the previous editions, Accounting for Managers combines theory with practical examples and contemporary case studies drawn from real business situations across a wide range of manufacturing, retail and service industries.
Accounting for Managers is an ideal companion for postgraduate and undergraduate students, as well as non-financial managers in executive education courses seeking a better understanding of the role played by accounting and how it affects their organization and business unit.
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