Management Accounting: Text and Cases - Hardcover

This comprehensive text on Management Accounting provides a student-friendly introduction to Accounting and Management Accounting. The book begins with the basics - explaining from scratch, the fundamental concepts, principles and conventions of accounting - and moves on to topics of higher order, such as balance sheet analysis, reading an annual report, and capital structure planning. It not only provides a strong theoretical framework of the subject to the readers but also aptly backs up the conceptual knowledge with real-life examples from reputed public limited companies such as Infosys, Wipro, Thermax, and Nestle. The annual report of Ingersoll-Rand India Limited, provided as an Appendix, enables the students to cross the boundaries of classroom study, towards understanding the real-life corporate world. Primarily targeted at students of postgraduate management courses, this book would also be of immense interest and benefit to working executives for updating their knowledge of management accounting, thereby preparing them for decision-making roles.

N.M. Singhvi, Associate Professor, Department of Financial Management, HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration, Jaipur, has more than 30 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has been actively involved in research work, authoring more than 30 research papers, and has also authored/co-authored several books. Ruzbeh J. Bodhanwala, a former faculty of finance of the FORE School of Management, New Delhi, has rich experience in the academic, research and corporate fields. He is currently working with a multinational company, and actively contributes to case analyses and articles in reputed Indian journals. He has authored three textbooks, including Understanding and Analyzing Balance Sheets Using Excel[registered] Worksheet, published by Prentice-Hall of India.