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As the long-time best-seller, Garrison has helped guide close to 2 million students through the challenging waters of managerial accounting since it was first published. It identifies the three functions managers must perform within their organizations plan operations, control activities, and make decisions and explains what accounting information is necessary for these functions, how to collect it, and how to interpret it. To achieve this, Managerial Accounting, 11/E, focuses, now as in the past, on three qualities: Relevance: Every effort is made to help students relate the concepts in this book to the decisions made by working managers. With insightful chapter openers, the popular Managerial Accounting in Action segments within the chapters, and stimulating end-of-chapter exercises, a student reading Garrison should never have to ask Why am I learning this? Balance: There's more than one type of business, and so Garrison covers a variety of business models, including not-for-profit, retail, service, and wholesale organizations as well as manufacturing. In the eleventh edition, service company examples are highlighted with icons in the margins of the text. Clarity: Generations of students have praised Garrison for the friendliness and readability of its writing, but that's just the beginning. Technical discussions have been simplified, material has been reordered, and the entire book carefully retuned to make teaching and learning from Garrison as easy as it can be. In addition, the supplements package is written by Garrison, Noreen, and Brewer, ensuring that students and professors will work with clear, well-written supplements that employ consistent terminology. Salient Features New end-of-chapter exercises.  As with every new edition of Garrison, the authors have refreshed and updated all end-of-chapter problems and exercises. Now, for the eleventh edition, we have included many focusing on individual learning objectives to give instructors greater flexibility in choosing their homework assignments. Available with OnePass and McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager. With McGraw-Hill's OnePass, just one access code gets students access to McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager, Net Tutor, the Online Learning Center and an online version of the textbook. The enhanced version of McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager integrates all of Managerial Accounting's online and multimedia assets to allow students to brush up on a topic before doing their homework. Instructors now have the option to give students pre-populated hints and feedback. The test bank has been added to Homework Manager so instructors can create online quizzes and exams and have them auto graded and recorded in the same gradebook as homework assignments. Lastly, the enhanced version provides the option of incorporating the complete online version of the textbook New coauthor Peter Brewer is a member of the editorial board of Issues in Accounting Education. He has twice been recognized by Miami University's student government for his commitment to students and their educational development. He is a frequent presenter at professional and academic conferences, including the AAA national meeting. Chapter 12 has been extensively rewritten to improve the flow and simplify the presentation for students. A new Instructor's Resource Guide, prepared by Peter Brewer, features transparency masters, teaching notes, and numerous other enhancements that cut down your prep time and make your class a more lively and challenging place to learn for your students. An entirely new Profitability Analysis appendix has been added that provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and analyzing profitability. Author-Written Supplements. Unlike other managerial accounting texts, Garrison, Noreen, and Brewer write all of the text's major supplements, ensuring a perfect fit between text and supplement. End-of-Chapter Material. Managerial Accounting has earned a reputation for the best end-of-chapter review and discussion material of any text on the market. Our problem and case material continues to conform to AECC and AACSB recommendations and makes a great starting point for class discussions and group projects. The eleventh edition includes Ethics assignments, Group projects, Internet assignments, Spreadsheet problems, and problems requiring students to use writing skills. Topic Tackler Plus. This program is a complete tutorial focusing on those areas in the managerial accounting course that give students the most trouble. Providing help on two key topics for every single chapter, this program features video clips, PowerPoint slide shows, interactive exercises, and self-grading quizzes. Icons in the text mark issues covered in Topic Tackler Plus. Additional materials include Narrated PowerPoint lectures covering the entire chapter, step-by-step walkthroughs of the review problems, and narrated Excel walkthroughs, informational videos, flashcards, and practice exams. Students can access Topic Tackler Plus through the Online Learning Center or an optional DVD-ROM. Service. To reflect our service-based economy, the text is replete with examples from service-based businesses. A helpful icon distinguishes service-related examples in the text. "In Business." These helpful boxed features offer a glimpse into how real companies use the managerial accounting concepts discussed within the chapter. Every chapter contains from two to nine of these current examples. Excel Templates Prepared by Jack Terry of ComSource Associates, Inc., these Excel templates offer solutions to the Student Excel Templates. Only available on the Instructor CD and the text's Website. Dallas County Community College Telecourse These short, action-oriented videos, developed by Dallas County Community College, provide the impetus for lively classroom discussion. The focus is on the preparation, analysis, and use of accounting information for business decision-making. (To acquire the complete telecourse, Accounting in Action, call Dallas TeleLearning at 972-669-6666, fax them at 972-669-6668 or visit their Website at http://telelearning.dcccd.edu.) Check Figures These provide key answers for selected problems and cases. They are available on the text's Web site. McGraw-Hill's Knowledge Gateway - The Complete Resource for Teaching Online Courses. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, in partnership with Eduprise, is proud to bring this unique service to instructors. This comprehensive Website contains a wealth of information for any professor interested in teaching online. Level one is available to any instructor browsing our Website. 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