For undergraduate and MBA cost or management accounting courses. Horngren's Cost Accounting spells out the cost accounting market and continues to innovate by consistently integrating the most current practice and theory into the text. This acclaimed, market-leading text emphasises the basic theme of "different costs for different purposes," and reaches beyond cost accounting procedures to consider concepts, analyses, and management.

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Packed with experiential exercises, self-assessments, and group activities, this book develops essential management skills students can use in their personal and professional lives.

The first academic text to shine a light on the darker side of global business, providing an illuminating and critical approach to the study of business and management which is vital in ensuring students develop responsible business-conscious and macro interdisciplinary thinking.

Organizational Change combines conceptual models with concrete examples and hands-on exercises to dramatically improve the knowledge, skills, and abilities of students in creating effective change.

Learning and Development (L&D) programmes are too often based on fads, the latest trends or learning designers' personal preferences without critical evaluation. Evidence-Informed Learning Design allows learning professionals to move away from this type of approach by showing them how to assess and apply relevant scientific literature, learning science research and proven learning techniques to design their training in a way that will make a measurable difference to employee performance and o...

In een wereld die steeds digitaler wordt, neemt het belang van menselijk contact juist toe. Deze ogenschijnlijke tegenstelling geldt ook voor het salesvak. Bij simpele producten en diensten wordt de verkoper steeds vaker vervangen door een applicatie, maar bij complexe producten en diensten is er juist meer behoefte aan de expertise van de verkoper. Tenminste, als deze waarde kan toevoegen! Bij het toevoegen van waarde zijn commerciële vaardigheden voor een verkoper onmisbaar. Aan de telefoo...

As we increase our awareness of the planetary challenges and how they intersect with the discipline or profession we choose to focus on, we have put our attention on the external forces and impacts. What remains untouched however is the set of beliefs, values, assumptions, mental processes, and paradigms that we hold and share: our mindset. But how do we change a mindset?This book is the first to introduce the 12 Principles for a Sustainability Mindset, presenting educators with a framework t...

Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics. Chains are big business, approximately 80 percent of hotels currently being constructed around the world are chain affiliated and, in 2014, the five largest brands held over a one million rooms. The high economic importance of the hotel chains and their global presence justifies the academic research in the field however, despite this, there is no uniform coverage ...

Innovation principles to bring about meaningful and sustainable growth in your organization Using a list of more than 2,000 successful innovations, including Cirque du Soleil, early IBM mainframes, the Ford Model-T, and many more, the authors applied a proprietary algorithm and determined ten meaningful groupings the Ten Types of Innovation that provided insight into innovation. The Ten Types of Innovation explores these insights to diagnose patterns of innovation within industries, to identi...