Acknowledgements.

About the Author.

PART I: CONTEXT OF ACCOUNTING.

Introduction of Accounting.

Accounting and its Relationship to Shareholder Value and Business Structure.

Recording Financial Transactions and the Limitations of Accounting.

Management Control, Management Accounting and its Rational-Economic Assumptions.

Interpretive and Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Decision-Making.

Constructing Financial Statements and the Framework of Accounting.

PART II: USING ACCOUNTING INFORMATION FOR DECISION-MAKING, PLANNING AND CONTROL.

Interpreting Financial Statements and Alternative Theoretical Perspectives.

Marketing Decisions.

Operating Decisions.

Human Resource Decisions.

Accounting Decisions.

Strategic Investment Decisions.

Performance Evaluation of Business Units.

Budgeting.

Budgetary Control.

PART III: SUPPORTING INFORMATION.

Research in Management Accounting, Conclusions and Further Reading.

Introduction to the Readings.

Glossary of Accounting Terms.

Appendices: Questions and Case Studies.

Author Index.

Subject Index.