For Introductory Financial Accounting courses at the MBA level, and for rigorous undergraduate courses.
A unique blend of theory, practice, and robust financial statement analysis.
Introduction to Financial Accounting describes the most widely accepted accounting theory and practice with an emphasis on using and analyzing the information in financial statements. This text also compares U.S. GAAP to IFRS where relevant.

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Alnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting and Director of the South Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Charles T. Horngren was the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Accounting at Stanford University.Srikant M. Datar is the Dean of Harvard Business School.Madhav V. Rajan is the Dean of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

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I. FOCUS ON DECISION MAKING

1. 1. Managerial Accounting, the Business Organization, and Professional Ethics
2. 2. Introduction to Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume Relationships
3. 3. Measurement of Cost Behavior
4. 4. Cost Management Systems and Activity-Based Costing
5. 5. Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Pricing Decisions
6. 6. Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Operational Decisions
      II. ACCOUNTING FOR PLANNING AND CONTROL
7. 7. Introduction to Budgets and Preparing the Master Budget
8. 8. Flexible Budgets and Variance Analysis
9. 9. Management Control Systems and Responsibility Accounting
10. 10. Management Control in Decentralized Organizations
        III. CAPITAL BUDGETING
11. 11. Capital Budgeting
        IV. PRODUCT COSTING
12. 12. Cost Allocation
13. 13. Accounting for Overhead Costs
14. 14. Job-Costing and Process-Costing Systems
        V. BASIC FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
15. 15. Basic Accounting: Concepts, Techniques, and Conventions
16. 16. Understanding Corporate Annual Reports: Basic Financial Statements
17. 17. Understanding and Analyzing Consolidated Financial Statements