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Table Of Contents
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1. Accounting as a Tool for Management
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2.Cost Behavior and Cost Estimation
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3. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and Pricing Decisions
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4. Product Costs and Job Order Costing
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5. Planning and Forecasting
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5A: Planning and Forecasting in a Retail Setting* (online only)
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6. Performance Evaluation: Variance Analysis
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7. Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management
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8. Using Accounting Information to Make Managerial Decisions
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9. Capital Budgeting
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10. Decentralization and Performance Evaluation
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11. Performance Evaluation Revisited: A Balanced Approach
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12. Financial Statement Analysis
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13. Statement of Cash Flows
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CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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1. Define managerial accounting (Unit 1.1)
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