Accounting For Managers Av Paul M. (Aston Business School Aston University) Collier

<p>This revised and updated fifth edition of <b>Accounting for Managers</b> builds on the international success of the previous editions in explaining how accounting is used by non-financial managers.</p><p>Emphasizing the interpretation as opposed to the construction of accounting information, <b>Accounting for Managers</b> 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.</p><p>As in the previous editions, <b>Accounting for Managers</b> combines theory with practical examples and contemporary case studies drawn from real business situations across a wide range of manufacturing, retail and service industries.</p><p><b>Accounting for Managers</b> is an ideal companion for postgraduate and undergraduate students, as well as non-financial managers in executiv