Retained Features:

• Focus on Ethics segments, which pose ethical dilemmas or discuss ethical issues and then ask the student for his or her opinion about the issue.
• Coverage of environmental cost management - a hot, new topic in the field.
• Managerial Accounting Practice pedagogical boxes that expose students to real world experiences of managerial accounting in action.
• Management Accountants: In Their Own Words: This feature incorporates actual quotes from practicing managerial accountants. This serves as a friendly, informal teaching device designed to show students how the field is changing and highlight the accountant’s role in companies’ cross-functional management teams.
• Focus Companies: One of the hallmark features of Hilton’s “Managerial Accounting” is its pioneering of the focus company approach. By using focus companies to illustrate concepts, students immediately see the importance of the material and become excited about the content. Each chapter is written around a realistic business that introduces the reader to the topics of that chapter.
• Each chapter is written as a self-contained unit to allow instructors maximum flexibility in topic sequencing.
• Current Topics: The 9th edition continues to contain very contemporary topical coverage. There is an even presentation of contemporary topics (activity-based costing and activity-based management: Target Costing, Kaizen Costing, the Value Chain, etc) and traditional topics (job-order costing, cost estimation, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, etc).
• The balanced presentation of Service, Retail, Nonprofit, and Manufacturing examples have been retained. A complete list of the focus companies, can be found on the endsheets of the textbook.