Feature Summary

Managerial Accounting is full of pedagogy designed to make studying productive and hassle free. On the following pages, you'll see the kind of engaging, helpful pedagogical features that has made Garrison a beacon for over 2 million students.

Opening Vignette

Each chapter opens with a Business Focus feature that provides a real-world example for students, allowing them to see how the chapter's information and insights apply to the world outside the classroom. Learning Objectives alert students to what they should expect as they progress through the chapter.

Service

To reflect our service-based economy, the text is replete with examples from service-based businesses. A helpful icon distinguishes service-related examples in the text.

“In Business”

These helpful boxed features offer a glimpse into how real companies use the managerial accounting concepts discussed within the chapter. Each chapter contains from two to nine of these current examples.

“Managerial Accounting in Action”

These highly praised vignettes depict cross-functional teams working together in real-life settings, working with the products and services that students recognize from their own lives. Students are shown step-by-step how accounting concepts are implemented into organizations and how these concepts are applied to solve everyday business problems. First, “The Issue” is introduced through a dialogue; the student then walks through the implementation process; finally, “The Wrap-Up” summarizes the big picture.

End-of-Chapter Material

Managerial Accounting has earned a reputation for the best end-of-chapter review and discussion material of any text on the market. Our problem and case material continues to conform to AECC and AACSB recommendations and makes a great starting point for class discussions and group projects. Other helpful features include:

• Spreadsheets have become an increasingly common budgeting tool for managerial accountants; therefore, to assist students in understanding how budgets look in a spreadsheet, all exhibits pertaining to budgeting appear in Microsoft Excel ® screen captures.
• Excel ® Spreadsheet Templates are available for use with select problems and cases.
• Ethics assignments serve as a reminder that good conduct is vital in business.
• Group projects can be assigned either as homework or as in-class discussion projects.
• Internet assignments teach students how to find information online and apply it to managerial accounting situations.
• The Writing Icon denotes problems that require students to use critical thinking as well as writing skills to explain their decisions.

  Author-Written Supplements

Unlike other managerial accounting texts, Garrison, Noreen, and Brewer write all of the text's major supplements, ensuring a perfect fit between text and supplement.