When it comes to getting the most out of your textbook, the Online Learning Center is the place to start. This OLC follows Managerial Accounting chapter by chapter, offering all kinds of supplementary help for you as you read. Features include:

• Learning objectives
• Chapter overviews
• Internet-based activities
• Self-grading quizzes
• Links to text references
• Links to professional resources on the Web
• Internet factory tours

To get started, just pick a chapter from the drop-down menu on the left-hand side of the screen.

Managerial Accounting Study Guide
For additional book-specific help, talk to your bookstore about ordering the Managerial Accounting Study Guide (ISBN 0072986131). This resource provides suggestions for studying chapter material, summarizes essential points in each chapter, and helps you test your knowledge with self?test questions and exercises. You can download a sample chapter from the section of this OLC marked “Course-wide Content.”

Good luck in your studies!

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Garrison/Noreen/Brewer: Helping you guide your students through the challenges of managerial accounting.

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For this reason, we've decorated our “flagship” accounting publication, Managerial Accounting by Garrison, Noreen, and Brewer, with an image that we feel encapsulates the greatest strengths of this market-leading text.

Garrison helps you guide your students through the challenging waters of managerial accounting. It identifies the three functions managers must perform within their organizations—plan operations, control activities, and make decisions—and explains what accounting information is necessary for these functions, how to collect it, and how to interpret it. To achieve this, Managerial Accounting, 11/E, focuses, now as in the past, on three qualities:

• Relevance. Every effort is made to help students relate the concepts in this book to the decisions made by working managers. With insightful chapter openers, the popular Managerial Accounting in Action segments within the chapters, and stimulating end-of-chapter exercises, a student reading Garrison should never have to ask “Why am I learning this?”
• Balance. There's more than one type of business, and so Garrison covers a variety of business models, including not-for-profit, retail, service, and wholesale organizations as well as manufacturing. In the eleventh edition, service company examples are highlighted with icons in the margins of the text.
• Clarity. Generations of students have praised Garrison for the friendliness and readability of its writing, but that's just the beginning. Technical discussions have been simplified, material has been reordered, and the entire book carefully retuned to make teaching—and learning—from Garrison as easy as it can be. In addition, the key supplements were written by Garrison, Noreen, and Brewer, ensuring that students and professors will work with clear, well-written supplements that employ consistent terminology.

The authors' steady focus on these three core elements has led to tremendous results. Managerial Accounting has consistently led the market, being used by over two million students and earning a reputation for reliability that other texts aspire to match.

As seafarers looked to the lighthouse for direction along an unfamiliar shore, so too can Garrison act as a crucial compass for students seeking to master this challenging course area. It is a responsibility that has consistently brought out the best in the Garrison team, and will continue to do so for many years to come.