Frontiers of Sustainability or Management Accounting

Frontiers of Sustainability: Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Forestry, Transportation, and Power Production

Author: Roger Dower

<p>The United States is the world's biggest consumer of natural resources and its biggest polluter. With the U.S. economy expected to grow by 25% in the next decade alone, the costs to Americans-and to everyone else in the world-will increase substantially if we do not find a way to live and work sustainably.<p>Building on the recommendations of the President's Council for Sustainable Development, researchers at the World Resources Institute have developed a feasible and concrete plan for achieving sustainable development in the United States. Frontiers of Sustainability presents the first practical vision of a sustainable future for the United States and the steps needed to get there.<p>Authors examine the environmental performance and trends in four key economic sectors: agriculture, electricity generation, transportation, and pulp and paper manufacturing. They map out and explore the implications of potentially dangerous trends and developments, and detail methods for reducing or managing emergent threats. Each chapter sets forth a technologically feasible vision of the future in which the unwanted trends we see unfolding now are reversed.<p>Frontiers of Sustainability presents an adaptable formula for moving the United States toward a future that ensures generations to come a healthy stock of environmental and natural resource assets. The authors's realistic and workable plan focuses on what Americans really care about, connects with virtues that Americans already profess, and, unlike most discussions of sustainable development, emphasizes the "how" as much as the "why."

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Management Accounting

Author: Steve W Albrecht

Accounting is about decision making using financial information. The text focuses on developing the learner's ability to critically analyze accounting information and make informed business decisions. The learners are exposed to a lot of real-world examples where they can see the effect that accounting information has on the decisions made by real companies. Also chapters are split into basic and expanded material so that the professor can easily cover the basics of a topic or, if he or she prefers, delve deeper into a selected topic. Finally, analysis is incorporated throughout the text so that the learners can learn to use accounting information as they learn how that information is prepared.

Table of Contents:

PART 1. FOUNDATIONS. 1. Introduction to Management Accounting. 2. Analyzing Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships. 3. Product Cost Flows and Business Organizations. PART 2. PLANNING. 4. Capital Investment Decisions. 5. Operational Budgeting. PART 3. CONTROL. 6. Monitoring Performance in Cost, Profit, and Investment Centers. 7. Managing Inventory and Service Costs. 8. Activity Based Costing and Quality Management. PART 4. EVALUATION. 9. Making Decisions Using Relevant Information. 10. Continuous Improvement in Management Accounting.