Management Decision Making or Financial Accounting

Management Decision Making: Spreadsheet Modeling, Analysis, and Application

Author: George E Monahan

Management Decision Making is a spreadsheet-based introduction to the tools and techniques of modern managerial decision making. The author shows how to formulate models in Microsoft Excel that can be used to analyze complex problems taken from all the functional areas of management, including finance, marketing, operations, and human resources. Throughout, the goal is to understand how business decisions are reached, what tradeoffs are made, and how outcomes depend on the underlying data. A CD-ROM is included that contains the widely-used decision analysis software applications TreePlan and Crystal Ball. A solutions manual and transparencies of all figures are available on the Web. The book is aimed at students of business, economics and engineering, including those taking MBA courses.

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Financial Accounting: A Bridge to Decision Making

Author: Robert W Ingram

Now in its sixth edition, Ingram, Albright, FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: A BRIDGE TO DECISION MAKING continues to teach students to understand the impact of accounting information on a company's financial statements. The authors illustrate accounting not as a set of technical procedures, but as a way of identifying and understanding business problems and a means for evaluating alternative solutions. By organizing the text around the flow of information through a business, the authors provide students with a sound understanding of the accounting information system and then an analysis of the financial, investing and operating activities of the firm. This approach is especially ideal for students who will become business managers, not accountants.

Table of Contents:

SECTION F1: THE ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM. F1. Accounting and Organizations. F2. Information in Organizations. F3. Accounting Measurement. F4. Processing Accounting Information. Module: The Database Environment: A Demonstration Case. F5. Reporting Accounting Information. F6. Financial Reporting: The Statement of Cash Flows. SECTION F2: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING INFORMATION. F7. The Time Value of Money. F8. Financing Activities. F9. Analysis of Financing Activities. F10. Investing Activities. F11. Analysis of Investing Activities. F12. Operating Activities. F13. Analysis of Operating Activities. Appendix A: Sources of Information About Companies and Industries. Appendix B: General Mills Inc. 1998 Annual Report.