For Instructors...

Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM (ISBN 007724351X): Contains all essential course supplements such as the Instructor’s Resource Manual, Solutions Manual, Test Bank Word Files, EZ Test Bank, PowerPoint® Presentations, and Excel Solutions Manual (both student and instructor versions)”. All instructor supplements are prepared by the authors.

Online Learning Center: www.mhhe.com/blocher5e. The Instructor Edition of the Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, 5e OLC is password-protected and another convenient place for instructors to access course supplements. Resources for professors include: the Instructor and Student Solutions Manual, teaching notes for the casebook, links to professional resources, sample syllabi, text updates, and solutions to the Instructor and Student Excel Spreadsheets.

Practice4Performance (P4P): A new learning supplement, Practice4Performance (P4P), is an online assignment and exam manager. It provides over 3,000 questions that are updated with new data on each student session with the system. This is a great system to use with large sections, and where the instructor wants to provide the students with the incentive to improve their performance in the course, by “practicing for performance.” The system not only administers student practice sessions, assignments, and exams (including automatic grading of all sessions, assignments and exams), but also provides student and instructor interaction features such as online document posting, class/individual announcements, and message boards. It is a complete solution for easy management of assignments and exams, and a great incentive for students to try practice questions in addition to those assigned.

For Students...

Cases and Readings for use with Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, 5e: This manual contains an extensive set of longer cases covering a variety of important topics. These cases scenarios put students in situations that allow them to think strategically and to apply concepts they’ve learned in the course. Key readings have been chosen to give students more background into the evolution of strategic cost management topics.

Online Learning Center: www.mhhe.com/blocher5e.The Student Edition of the Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, 5e OLC contains many tools designed to help students study, including: the Cases and Readings manual, check figures, text updates, links to professional resources, chapter overviews, chapter objectives, multiple choice quizzes, Internet exercises, Present Value tables, and PowerPoint® presentations.

SAS Software: SAS’s Activity-Based Costing (ABC) software is used worldwide for performance management functions and analysis. Cost Management fully incorporates SAS Software in its ABC case material to prepare students for calculating ABC costs, creating cost driver assignments, and organizing cost information in an electronic environment. Visit the Blocher OLC today to learn more!