New Features:

• New Chapter Summaries All of the chapter summaries have been completely rewritten, and they are now structured on the learning objectives for each chapter. In each new chapter summary, each of the chapter’s learning objectives is repeated. Then each learning objective is followed by appropriate summary content.
• Revised and Updated Pedagogy Many chapters include revisions of pedagogy, condensing and streamlining of explanations and addition of more current examples and references from the popular business press (e.g., The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg BusinessWeek).
• Revised End-of-Chapter Assignment Material The end-of-chapter assignment material has been very heavily revised. Virtually all of the quantitative exercises, problems, and cases contain data different from that in the eighth edition.
• Revised Build a Spreadsheet This popular feature has been completely revised for the ninth edition. Several exercises and problems in each chapter include an optional requirement to build an Excel spreadsheet to solve the problem.
• Enhanced Service Industry Examples As the service industry occupies an ever-greater role in the economy, even greater emphasis has been placed on providing examples throughout the text of real-world service-industry firms using managerial accounting information.
• Updated Contrast Companies Contrast companies appear in every chapter and continue to provide major service-industry examples.
• Updated Management Accounting Practice Several of these real-world examples have been revised and updated to make them more current, and several new examples have been added.
• Supplementary Chapters Process Supplementary chapters on special topics are more accessible than ever. These supplements are located on the Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/hilton9e and include: FIFO Method of Process Costing; Process Costing in Sequential Production Departments: Weighted-Average Method; Statement of Cash Flows; Analyzing Financial Statements
• The Solutions Manual for each supplement can be found on the password-protected Instructor’s Online Learning Center.
• Connect Accounting and Connect Plus Accounting Have the same great functionality of Homework Manager, plus more!