Introduction to Managerial Accounting, 4th edition, by BREWER/GARRISON/NOREEN empowers your students by offering:

CONCISE COVERAGE

Your students want a text that is concise, and that presents material in a clear and readable manner. Introduction to Managerial Accounting presents everything your students should know, keeping the material accessible while avoiding advanced topics related to cost accounting topics. Their biggest concern is making sure they can solve the end-of-chapter problems after reading the chapter. Market research indicates that Brewer/Garrison/Noreen helps students achieve this better than any other concise managerial accounting text on the market. Additionally, the key supplements were written by Garrison, Noreen, and Brewer, ensuring that students and instructors will work with clear, well-written supplements that employ consistent terminology.

DECISION-MAKING FOCUS

All students who pass through your class need to know how accounting information is used to make business decisions, especially if they plan to be future managers. That’s why Brewer, Garrison and Noreen make decision making a pivotal component of Introduction to Managerial Accounting. In every chapter you’ll find the following key features that are designed to teach your students how to use accounting information. Decision Maker and You Decide Boxes help students to develop analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Building Your Skills cases challenge students’ decision-making skills.

A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH TO LEARNING

Today’s students rely on technology more than ever as a learning tool, and Introduction to Managerial Accounting offers the finest technology package of any text on the market. From interactive study aids to online grading and course management, our technology assets have one thing in common: they make your class time more productive, more stimulating, and more rewarding for you and your students. McGraw-Hill’s Media Integration allows students to maximize the technological package available to them with Brewer. Apple® iPod® icons throughout the text link content back to quizzes, audio and visual lecture presentations, review problems, and course-related videos—all of which can be downloaded to their iPod or other portable MP3/MP4 players so they can study and review on the go. McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager® uses text-based, algorithmically generated problems to develop problemsolving skills. For mastering the most difficult topics, Topic Tackler combines video, self-assessment, and PowerPoint lectures. Additionally, the Online Learning Center provides your students with a variety of multimedia aids to help them learn managerial accounting. Homework Manager Plus™ provides an online version of the text in addition to access to Homework Manager and all of the assets offered on the Online Learning Center, giving students a convenient way to access everything they need to succeed in their course.