Cost Accounting: A Decision Emphasis - Tapa blanda

This text focuses on the use of accounting data for decision making purposes, primarily by the firm's management. The text covers the collection, summarization, and reporting of cost and revenue data for internal management decisions and for external financial reporting and it integrates the use of modern day databases throughout.

Germain Boer, CPA, is Professor of Management at The Owen Graduate School of Management of Vanderbilt University where he teaches and does research in management accounting and entrepreneurship. He has worked as a Project Manager for the Institute of Management Accountants (formerly National Association of Accountants), as a Professor at Oklahoma State University and Texas Tech University, and as a Faculty Resident with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Chicago. Germain has published numerous articles on management accounting, a book on direct costing (which is currently available in both Spanish and Japanese), a cost accounting textbook, and he now does research on the role of private capital in new business startups. He is currently working on a research project related to the creation of new ventures. In addition to this research, he is a business advisor to several health care and biotechnology startup ventures. Germain does consulting on strategy development for companies and on methods for using financial systems to enhance profits. He is a frequent speaker at Institute of Management Accounting chapters and councils, and he does consulting with companies on performance measurement and strategy formulation.