Friday, December 5, 2008

Contemporary Management and Financial and Managerial Accounting

Contemporary Management

Author: Gareth R Jones

Contemporary Management by Jones and George distinguishes itself through its authorship, comprehensive, current contents, rich and relevant examples and applications and experiential exercises provided in every single chapter. The cutting-edge 5th Edition continues to redefine what principles of management texts should look, sound, and feel like. As an author team Gareth Jones and Jennifer George are uniquely qualified to write about both the strategic and organizational challenges managers face. Contemporary Management is a comprehensive text that surveys the theoretical underpinnings of modern management thought and research. Through a variety of examples from small, medium, and large companies it shows the reader how those ideas are used by practicing managers. A hallmark of this text is its focus on the "Manager as a Person," which discusses managers as real people with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and problems.



Table of Contents:

Part One: Management

1
Managers and Managing

2
The Evolution of Management Thought

3
Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: The Manager as a Person

Part Two: The Environment of Management

4
Ethics and Social Responsibility

5
Managing Diverse Employees in a Multicultural Environment

6
Managing in the Global Environment

Part Three: Decision-Making, Planning, and Strategy

7
Decision Making, Learning, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship

8
The Manager as a Planner and Strategist

9
Value Chain Management: Functional Strategies for Competitive Advantage

Part Four : Organizing and Controlling

10
Managing Organizational Structure and Culture

11
Organizational Control and Change

12
Human Resource Management

Part Five: Leading Individuals and Groups

13
Motivation and Performance

14
Leadership

15
Effective Groups and Teams

Part Six: Managing Critical Organizational Processes

16
Promoting Effective Communication

17
Managing Conflict, Politics, and Negotiation

18
Using Information Technology to Increase Performance

Financial and Managerial Accounting

Author: Jan Williams

With the fourteenth edition of Financial and Managerial Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions, the Williams author team carries on the tradition of being a solid foundation for students learning basic accounting concepts. Through the revision, the authors have further refined the financial accounting topics, while slightly expanding the managerial accounting material to provide even more balanced coverage.

Hallmarks of the text—including the solid Accounting Cycle Presentation, relevant pedagogy, and high quality, end-of-chapter material—have all been updated and enhanced through the revision. A new design enhances the graphical elements of the text, while the integration of several boxed elements provides a more streamlined approach to chapter topics.



Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Accounting: Information for Decision Making

Chapter 2: Basic Financial Statements

Chapter 3: The Accounting Cycle: Capturing Economic Events

Chapter 4: The Accounting Cycle: Accruals and Deferrals

Chapter 5: The Accounting Cycle: Reporting Financial Results

Comprehensive Problem 1: Susquehanna Equipment Rentals

Chapter 6: Merchandising Activities

Chapter 7: Financial Assets

Chapter 8: Inventories and the Cost of Goods Sold

Comprehensive Problem 2: Guitar Universe, Inc.

Chapter 9: Plant and Intangible Assets

Chapter 10: Liabilities

Chapter 11: Stockholders' Equity: Paid-in Capital

Comprehensive Problem 3: McMinn Retail, Inc.

Chapter 12: Income and Changes in Retained Earnings

Chapter 13: Statement of Cash Flows

Chapter 14: Financial Statement Analysis

Comprehensive Proble m 4: Home Depot, Inc.

Chapter 15: Global Business and Accounting

Chapter 16: Management Accounting: A Business Partner

Chapter 17: Job Order Cost Systems and Overhead Allocations

Chapter 18: Process Costing

Chapter 19: Costing and the Value Chain

Chapter 20: Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

Chapter 21: Incremental Analysis

Comprehensive Problem 5: The Gilster Company

Chapter 22: Responsibility Accounting and Transfer Pricing

Chapter 23: Operational Budgeting

Chapter 24: Standard Cost Systems

Chapter 25: Rewarding Business Performance

Comprehensive Problem 6: Utease Corporation

Chapter 26: CapitalBudgeting

Appendix A: 2005 Home Depot Financial Statements

Appendix B: The Time Value of Money: Future Amounts and Present Values

Appendix C: Forms of Business Organization

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