Management Accounting provides a very accessible and easy-to-follow introduction to the subject.  It is intended as a core textbook for students studying management accounting for the first time: either those following an undergraduate degree in a business school, or non-business studies students studying a management accounting course.  This includes students on both accounting and non-accounting degrees and also MBA students.  It provides a self-contained, introductory, one semester course covering the major aspects of management accounting.  Management Accounting is also designed so that students can progress to more advanced follow-up courses in management accounting.  The book is, therefore, well suited as an introduction for mainstream accounting graduates or MBA students as a basic text. It should be particularly useful in reinforcing the fundamental theory and practice of introductory management accounting.

Michael Jones is Professor of Financial Reporting and Director of the Financial Reporting and Business Communication Unit at Cardiff Business School. He is also author of  ‘Accounting’ 2nd edition and ‘Financial Accounting’ both published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.