Accounting for Managers

About the Book

Peter M. Bergevin and Michael M. MacQueen’s objective in writing Accounting for Managers is to make students and professionals informed users of accounting data. They believe in getting to the point and demonstrating the practical benefits of accounting. In other words, their book is the anti-textbook textbook, it reflects the authors' educational and life philosophy: get to point and do something about it. Improve your decision-making abilities and climb the corporate ladder. Accounting for Managers enables you to unleash the power of financial information in order to improve your ability to conduct business operations, make shrewd investments, and secure needed financing. Unlike stuffy treatments of accounting, Accounting for Managers clearly and concisely provides you with the needed financial information necessary to make the right choices at the right time. Accounting for Managers seamlessly integrates accounting theory with practice. Its information, insights, and lessons will help you to convert business challenges into professional accomplishments. This superb treatment of the "Language of Business" will reside on your desk through the years as your professional successes mount. Accounting for Managers is an ideal text for managerial accounting courses in MBA programs. It is especially suitable to online, accelerated, and executive programs.

About the Author

Dr. Peter M. Bergevin received his PhD in accounting from Arizona State University. He has published more than seventy-five research manuscripts and cases which have appeared in various accounting journals. Michael M. MacQueen holds an MBA from the California State Polytechnic University and is a doctoral candidate in organizational leadership at the University of La Verne. He spent more than twenty years working in a variety of positions in the accounting industry before becoming a professor. Both are professors of accounting at the University of Redlands in Southern California.