Accounting for Decision Making and Control 8th Edition by Zimmerman, Jerold

Accounting for Decision Making and Control 8th Edition by Zimmerman, JeroldISBN 9780078025747MHID 0078025745During their professional careers, managers in all organizations, profit and nonprofit,interact with their accounting systems. Sometimes managers use the accounting system toacquire information for decision making. At other times, the accounting system measuresperformance and thereby influences their behavior. The accounting system is both a sourceof information for decision making and part of the organization?s control mechanisms?thus, the title of the book, Accounting for Decision Making and Control .The purpose of this book is to provide students and managers with an understandingand appreciation of the strengths and limitations of an organization?s accounting system,thereby allowing them to be more intelligent users of these systems. This book providesa framework for understanding accounting systems and a basis for analyzing proposedchanges to these systems. The text demonstrates that managerial accounting is an integralpart of the firm?s organizational architecture, not just an isolated set of computational topics.