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.

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.

“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 AECC and AACSB recommendations and makes a great starting point for class discussions and group projects.

Other helpful features include:

• New 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

Here’s what you need to know to get the most out of Managerial Accounting’s technology package:

For Students:

iPod Content: Harness the power of one of the most popular technology tools you use today–the Apple iPod. Our innovative approach allows you to download audio and video presentations right into your iPod and take learning materials with you wherever you go. You just need to visit the Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/garrison12e to download our iPod content. For each chapter of the book you will be able to download audio narrated lecture presentations, managerial accounting videos, and even self-quizzes designed for use on various versions of iPods. The iPod content can be downloaded quickly and easily from the enclosed DVD without the need to spend the additional download time. It makes review and study time as easy as putting on headphones.

Topic Tackler Plus: Topic Tackler provides focused help on the two most challenging topics in every chapter. How do you use Topic Tackler? Take your pick:

• Watch a short, high-quality video presentation.
• Review the topic highlights with a graphical slide show.
• Practice on numerous interactive exercises.
• Follow the links to more information on the World Wide Web.

However you want to use it, Topic Tackler is the perfect tool for review sessions, or just for some quick reinforcement as you read. Look for the Topic Tackler icon while you read—that means you’ll find Topic Tackler ready to help you on that particular subject. Turn to the inside front cover to learn how to get started using Topic Tackler!

For Instructors and Students:

McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager® is a Web-based supplement that duplicates problems directly from the textbook end-of-chapter material, using algorithms to provide a limitless supply of online self-graded practice for students, or assignments and tests with unique versions of every problem. Say goodbye to cheating in your classroom; say hello to the power and flexibility you’ve been waiting for in creating assignments. The enhanced version of McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager integrates all of Managerial Accounting’s online and multimedia assets to allow your students to brush up on a topic before doing their homework. You now have the option to give your students pre-populated hints and feedback. The test bank has been added to McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager so you can create online quizzes and exams and have them autograded and recorded in the same gradebook as your homework assignments. Lastly, the enhanced version provides you with the option of incorporating the complete online version of the textbook, so your students can easily reference the chapter material as they do their homework assignment, even when their textbook is far away.

McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager is also a useful grading tool. All assignments can be delivered over the Web and are graded automatically, with the results stored in your private gradebook. Detailed results let you see at a glance how each student does on an assignment or an individual problem—you can even see how many tries it took them to solve it. Students receive full access to McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager when they purchase OnePass, or you can have McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager pass codes shrinkwrapped with the textbook. Students can also purchase access to McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager directly from your class home page.

OnePass: It can be a challenge remembering all the different access codes for the many online assets available with Managerial Accounting. To make life easier for your students, McGraw-Hill is pleased to introduce OnePass. With McGraw-Hill’s OnePass, just one access code gets your student access to McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager, Topic Tackler Plus, NetTutor, and the online version of the textbook. Moreover, the OnePass card fits in your students’ wallets for safekeeping.

Online Learning Center (OLC) www.mhhe.com/garrison12e
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. As your students study, they can refer to the OLC Web site for such benefits as:

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

A secured Instructor Resource Center stores your essential course materials to save you prep time before class. The Instructor’s Manual, Solutions, and PowerPoint®, slides are now just a couple of clicks away. You will also find useful packaging information and transition notes. OnePass gives students full use of all OLC features, including NetTutor and an online version of Managerial Accounting. The OLC Web site also serves as a doorway to other technology solutions like PageOut, which is free to Managerial Accounting adopters.