Financial Reporting Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation and Cost Management

Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation: A Strateg

Author: Clyde P Stickney

Stickney/Brown/Wahlen is a balanced, flexible, and complete Financial Statement Analysis book that is written with the premise that students learn financial statement analysis most effectively by performing the analysis on actual companies. Students learn to integrate the concepts from economics, business strategy, accounting, and other business disciplines through the integration of a unique six-step process.

Table of Contents:

1: Overview of Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation. 2: Asset and Liability Valuation and Income Measurement. 3: Income Flows versus Cash Flows: Key Relationships in the Dynamics of a Business. 4: Profitability Analysis. 5: Risk Analysis. 6: Quality of Accounting Information and Adjustments to Reported Financial Statement Data. 7: Revenue Recognition and Related Expenses. 8: Liability Recognition and Related Expenses. 9: Intercorporate Entities. 10: Forecasting Financial Statements. 11: Valuation: Discount Rates and Dividends-Based Approaches. 12: Valuation: Cash-Flow-Based Approaches. 13: Valuation: Earnings-Based Approaches. 14: Valuation: Market-Based Approaches. Appendix A: Financial Statements and Notes for Pepsico, Inc. and Subsidiaries. Appendix B: Management's Discussion and Analysis for Pepsico, Inc. and Subsidiaries. Appendix C: Output of FSAP for Pepsico. Appendix D: User Manual for FSAP Financial Analysis Spreadsheets.

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Cost Management: Accounting & Control

Author: Don R Hansen

Introduce your students to the dynamic, exciting nature of cost management as this edition demonstrates how today's conditions consistently require change in cost management systems. Hansen/Mowen/Guan's COST MANAGEMENT: ACCOUNTING AND CONTROL, Sixth Edition, first covers functional-based cost and control and then activity-based cost systems, giving students the understanding and skills to manage any cost management system. This edition's expansive coverage and consistent attention to technical detail provides a thorough, well-researched foundation for learning. It addresses the most recent influential topics and emerging processes affecting the discipline, including a new chapter on lean accounting and a focus on technology tools that positively impact internal costing practices.

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An undergraduate text on traditional and contemporary approaches to cost management, accounting, and control. Coverage includes foundation concepts, functional-based and activity-based costing, and decision making. Themes throughout include a historical perspective, value chain analysis, and accounting and cost management systems. A service sector focus is maintained, and there is material on behavioral and ethical issues. Includes worked problems, exercises, discussion and writing questions, and spreadsheet template problems. Can also be used at the graduate level. The authors are affiliated with Oklahoma State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction to Cost Accounting and Cost Management	1
Pt. 1	Foundation Concepts
2	Basic Cost Management Concepts	28
3	Activity Cost Behavior	64
	Comprehensive Case 1	107
Pt. 2	Functional-Based Costing and Control
4	Product and Service Costing: Overhead Application and Job-Order System	112
5	Product and Service Costing: A Process Systems Approach	161
6	Support Department Cost Allocation	206
7	Joint Product and by-Product Costing	240
8	Budgeting for Planning and Control	266
9	Standard Costing: A Functional-Based Control Approach	313
10	Decentralization: Responsibility Accounting, Performance Evaluation, and Transfer Pricing	355
11	International Issues in Cost Management	397
	Comprehensive Case 2	432
Pt. 3	Activity-Based Costing
12	Activity-Based Costing	438
13	Strategic Cost Management	488
14	Activity- and Strategic-Based Responsibility Accounting	542
15	Quality Costing: Measurement and Control	597
16	Productivity: Measurement and Control	637
17	Environmental Cost Management	665
	Comprehensive Case 3	698
Pt. 4	Activity- and Functional-Based Decision Making
18	Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis	704
19	Activity Resource Usage Model and Relevant Costing: Tactical Decision Making	753
20	Pricing and Profitability Analysis	788
21	Capital Investment Decisions	838
22	Inventory Management: Economic Order Quantity, JIT and the Theory of Constraints	884
	Comprehensive Case 4	920