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About the Author
A Professor of Accounting at Cornell University, Professor Hilton teaches in the areas of managerial accounting and cost management systems. With bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University, he received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. A Cornell faculty member since 1977, Professor Hilton also has taught accounting at Ohio State and the University of Florida, where he held the position of Walter J. Matherly Professor of Accounting. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, Hilton worked for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company and served as an officer in the United States Air Force. Professor Hilton is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants and has been active in the American Accounting Association. He has served as associate editor of The Accounting Review and as a member of its editorial board. Hilton also has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Accounting Research. He has been a member of the resident faculties of both the Doctoral Consortium and the New Faculty Consortium sponsored by the American Accounting Association. With wide-ranging research interests, Hilton has published articles in many -journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, -Management Science, Decision Sciences, The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Mathematical Psychology. Author of Managerial Accounting, he also has published a monograph in the AAA Studies in Accounting Research series, is a co-author of Budgeting: Profit Planning and Control, and is a co-author of Cost Accounting: Concepts and Mana-ge-rial Applications. Professor Hilton's current research interests focus on contemporary cost management systems and international issues in managerial accounting. In recent years, he has toured manufacturing facilities and consulted with practicing managerial accountants in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Table of Contents
Ch. 1 The Changing Role of Managerial Accounting in a Dynamic Business Environment Ch. 2 Basic Cost Management Concepts and Accounting for Mass Customization Operations Ch. 3 Product Costing and Cost Accumulation in a Batch Production Environment Ch. 4 Product Costing and Hybrid Product-Costing Systems Ch. 5 Activity-Based Costing and Cost Management Systems Ch. 6 Activity-Based Management and Todays Advanced Manufacturing Environment Ch. 7 Activity Analysis, Cost Behavior, and Cost Estimation Ch. 8 Cost-Volume Profit Analysis Ch. 9 Profit Planning, Activity-Based Budgeting, and e-Budgeting Ch. 10 Standard Costing and Performance Measures for Todays Manufacturing Environment Ch. 11 Flexible Budgeting and the Management of Overhead and Support Activity Costs Ch. 12 Responsibility Accounting and Total Quality Management Ch. 13 Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing Ch. 14 Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits Ch. 15 Target Costing and Cost Analysis for Pricing Decisions Ch. 16 Capital Expenditure Decisions: An Introduction Ch. 17 Further Aspects of Capital Expenditure Decisions Ch. 18 Allocation of Support Activity Costs and Joint Costs Ch. 19 Absorption, Variable and Throughput Costing