Introduction to 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 have made Brewer one of the bestselling Managerial Accounting texts on the market.

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 Examples: 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.

Infographics: Infographics help students visualize key accounting concepts, such as Activity-Based Costing Model, Sequential Processing Departments, and Continuous Process Manufacturing vs. Job-Order Manufacturing.

Powerful Pedagogy:

• "In Business ": These helpful boxed features offer a glimpse into how real companies use the managerial accounting concepts discussed within the chapter. Every chapter contains from two to nine of these current examples.
• Concept Checks: allow students to test their comprehension of topics and concepts covered at various stages throughout each chapter.
• The Decision Maker: feature fosters critical thinking and decision-making skills by providing real world business scenarios that require the resolution of a business issue. The suggested solution is located at the end of the chapter.
• The You Decide: feature challenges students to apply the tools of analysis and make decisions. The suggested solution is found at the end of the chapter.

End-Of-Chapter Materials: Introduction to Managerial Acounting 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 figures pertaining to budgeting will appear as 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 decision.

Author-Written Supplements: Unlike other managerial accounting texts, Brewer, Garrison and Noreen write all of the text's major supplements, ensuring a perfect fit between text and supplements. For more information on Introduction to Managerial Accounting's supplements package see page xviii.