Includes index.

1. The changing role of managerial accounting in a dynamic business environment --
2. Basic cost management concepts and accounting for mass customization operations --
3. Product costing and cost accumulation in a batch production environment --
4. Process costing and hybrid product-costing systems --
5. Activity-based costing and management --
6. Activity analysis, cost behavior, and cost estimation --
7. Cost-volume-profit analysis --
8. Absorption and variable costing --
9. Profit planning and activity-based budgeting --
10. Standard costing, operational performance measures, and the balanced scorecard --
11. Flexible budgeting and the management of overhead and support activity costs --
12. Responsibility accounting, quality control, and environmental cost management --
13. Investment centers and transfer pricing --
14. Decision making: relevant costs and benefits --
15. Target costing and cost analysis for pricing decisions --
16. Capital expenditure decisions --
17. Allocation of support activity costs and joint costs.

The emphasis of Managerial Accounting, 9th edition is on teaching students to use accounting information to best manage an organization. In a practice Hilton pioneered in the first edition, each chapter is written around a realistic business or focus company that guides the reader through the topics of that chapter. Known for balanced examples of Service, Retail, Nonprofit and Manufacturing companies, Hilton offers a clear, engaging writing style that has been praised by instructors and students alike. As in previous editions, there is significant coverage of contemporary topics such as activity-based costing, target costing, the value chain, customer profitability analysis, and throughput costing while also including traditional topics such as job-order costing, budgeting and performance evaluation