Managerial Accounting is full of pedagogy designed to make studying productive and hassle free. Below, you’ll see the kind of engaging, helpful pedagogical features that have made Garrison a beacon for over two 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. “In Business” Boxes: These helpful boxed features offer a glimpse into how real companies use the managerial accounting concepts discussed within the chapter. Each chapter contains from three to fourteen of these current examples. “Managerial Accounting
in Action” Vignettes:
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 in 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 AACSB recommendations and makes a great starting point for class discussions and group projects. When Ray Garrison first created the Managerial Accounting text, he started with the end-of-chapter material then wrote the narrative in support of it. This unique approach to textbook authoring not only ensured consistency between the practice material and text content, but also underscored Garrison's fundamental belief in the importance of applying theory through practice. It is not enough for students to read, they must also understand. To this day, the guiding principle of that first edition remains and Garrison's superior end-of-chapter material continues to provide accurate, current, and relevant practice for students.
Research and Application Cases using 10-K data from companies such as Whole Foods Market, Dell, FedEx, and Target offer end-of-chapter learning opportunities for students to identify strategy and business risks and evaluate managerial accounting concepts within a real world context. 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. For more information on Managerial Accounting’s supplements package, see page xvi.
• Instructor’s Manual
• Test bank
• Solutions Manual
• Workbook/Study GuideA Market-Leading Book Deserves Market-Leading Technology
The wide array of technology assets that come with Managerial Accounting aren’t add-ons thrown in at the last minute: They’re extensions of the textbook itself, that work in unison to make managerial accounting as easy as possible to learn.
You may be tempted to put aside your CD and registration cards, planning to “get to them
later”; you may even want to discard them outright. Don’t do it! These supplements can offer you tremendous help as you go through the course; the sooner you become familiar with them, the sooner you can enjoy the immense benefits they have to offer.
iPod Content Harness the power of one of the most popular technology tools students use today–the Apple iPod. Our innovative approach allows students to download audio and video presentations right into their iPod and take learning materials with them wherever they go. Students just need to visit the Online Learning Center at
http://www.mhhe.com/garrison13e
to download our iPod content. For each chapter of the book they will be able to download audio narrated lecture presentations, managerial accounting videos, and even selfquizzes
designed for use on various versions of iPods. It makes review and study time as easy as putting in headphones. McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager System is an online homework management solution that contains this textbook's end-of-chapter material as well as the test bank. Instructors have the option to build assignments from static and algorithmic versions of the end-of-chapter material or build self-graded quizzes from the test bank.
Features.
• Assigns book-specific problems/exercises to students.
• Provides integrated test bank questions for quizzes and tests.
• Automatically grades assignments and quizzes and stores results in one grade book.
Learn more about McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager system by referring to the opening pages of this text. McGraw-Hill's Homework ManagerPlus™ McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager PLUS™ system gathers all of Managerial Accountings online student resources under one convenient access point, combining the power and flexibility of McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager system with the latest interactive learning technology to create a comprehensive, fully integrated online study package. Students using McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager PLUS system can access not only McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager system itself, but the interactive online textbook as well, allowing students working on an assignment to click a hotlink and instantly review the appropriate material in the textbook. Students receive full access to McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager system when they purchase McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager PLUS system. McGraw-Hill Connect™ Accounting The next evolution in online homework management and assessment, McGraw-Hill Connect Accounting is customized to Garrison's Managerial Accounting, 13e. With Connect Accounting, instructors can deliver assignments, quizzes, and tests online. The system allows instructors to assign end-of-chapter material from the text in both static and algorithmic form, providing an endless supply of practice material for students. In addition, instructors can edit existing questions and author entirely new problems.
Features:
• Assignments are graded automatically, and the results are stored in the instructor's private gradebook.
• Instructors can track individual student performance by question, assignment, or in comparison to the rest of the class.
• Detailed grade reports are easily integrated with Learning Management Systems, such as WebCT and Blackboard. McGraw-Hill Connect Accounting is also available with the interactive online version of the text—Connect Accounting Plus. In addition to providing students with online assignments and assessments, Connect Accounting Plus also gives them 24/7 online access to an eBook—an identical, electronic edition of the printed text—to aid them in successfully completing their work wherever and whenever they choose. In addition to McGraw-Hill Connect Accounting, Garrison 13e can also be purchased with McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager system, giving you more than one option to fit your course management needs. Online Learning Center (OLC) www.mhhe.com/garrison13e
More and more students are studying online. That's why we offer an Online Learning Center (OLC) that follows Managerial Accounting chapter by chapter. It doesn't require any building or maintenance on your part. It's ready to go the moment you and your students type in the URL.
The Online Learning Center contains:
For the Instructor (on a password protected site)
• Instructor’s Manual
• Solutions Manual
• Test bank
• Powerpoint® Slides
• Excel Template Solutions
• Transparency Masters
For the Student:
• Practice Quizzes
• Powerpoint® Slides
• Excel Templates
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are available in one standard online reader with full text search, notes and highlighting,
and e-mail tools for sharing notes between classmates. Online Course Management No matter what online course management system you use (WebCT, BlackBoard, or
eCollege), we have a course cartridge available for Garrison 13e. Our cartridges are
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Don’t forget that you can count on the highest level of service from McGraw-Hill. Our
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course content delivery easy. Apple iPod® iQuiz Use our EZ Test Online to help your students prepare to succeed with Apple iPod®
iQuiz. Using our EZ Test Online you can make test and quiz content available for a
student’s Apple iPod®. Students must purchase the iQuiz game application from Apple
for 99¢ in order to use the iQuiz content. It works on the iPOD fifth-generation iPODs
and better. Instructors need only EZ Test Online to produce iQuiz ready content. Instructors take their existing tests and quizzes and export them to a file that can then
be made available to the student to take as a self quiz on their iPods. It’s as simple as
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