Part I. Focus on decision making -- 1. Managerial accounting & the business organization -- 2. Introduction to cost behavior and cost-volume relationships -- 3. Measurement of cost behaivor -- 4. Cost management systems and activity-based costing -- 5. Relevant information and decision Making: Marketing decisions -- 6. Relevant information and decision making: production decisions -- Part II. Accounting for planning and control -- 7. The master budget -- 8. Flexible budgets and variance analysis -- 9. Management control systems and responsibilty accounting -- 10. Management control in decentralized organizations -- Part III. Capital budgeting -- 11. Capital budgeting -- Part IV. Product costing -- 12. Cost allocation -- 13. Job-costing systems -- 14. Process-costing systems -- 15. Overhead application: variable and absorption costing -- Part V. Basic financial accounting -- 16. Basic accounting: concepts, techniques, & conventions -- 17. Understanding corporate annual reports: basic financial statements -- 18. More on understanding corporate annual reports -- 19. Difficulties in measuring net income -- Appendices.