Study Guide to accompany Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 3rd Edition

by Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso

Work more effectively and gauge your progress as you go along! This Study Guide is designed to accompany Weygandt’s Managerial Tools for Business Decision Making, 3 rd Edition . Each chapter of the study guide includes a chapter overview, review of study objectives, problems, true/false questions, multiple choice questions, and solutions. Each question is identified by a corresponding text study objective. Weygandt’s Managerial Tools for Business Decision Making, 3 rd Edition gives students the tools they need to succeed, whether as accountants or in other career paths. With a framework in decision-making, it covers all the necessary techniques and concepts for a one semester, undergraduate managerial accounting course. Many students in this course are not accounting majors and will need to understand the big picture of accounting. Therefore, this text provides them with a pedagogy that helps to build their decision-making skills and to understand how to use accounting information to make quality business decisions in whatever major or career they choose.

304 pages, Paperback

First published December 24, 2004

About the author

Jerry J. Weygandt, PhD, CPA, is Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois. Articles by Professor Weygandt have appeared in the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy, and other academic and professional journals. These articles have examined such financial reporting issues as accounting for price-level adjustments, pensions, convertible securities, stock option contracts, and interim reports. Professor Weygandt is author of other accounting and financial reporting books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Wisconsin Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association and as a member of the editorial board of the Accounting Review; he also has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. He is the recipient of the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs Outstanding Educator's Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001 he received the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.