![]() I greatly appreciate the effort of the authors in completing this book and making it available to students at no charge. I have not perceived any culturally insensitive content or example in any way. I have not noticed any grammatical errors. Some of the tables are hazy and interferes with the reading. Throughout the book, spaces are omitted between the words in the "Key equation" boxes in the PDF version, which may confuse the reader. ![]() The topics in the text are presented in a logical and workable manner. Splitting each concepts into smaller chunks/sections supplemented by relevant questions and answers and examples would make the reading easy to the students. The text is consistent in terms of terminology and organization format. I really like the introduction of each chapter, which starts with a business scenario in the form of dialogues that raises a particular management issue and then points out the necessity of learning the managerial accounting concepts covered in that chapter to solve such issue. However, there are scopes for adding more examples and recent business phenomena and reference to current information technology. In terms of contents, the textbook covered all the major concepts of managerial accounting and hence, remain relevant for a considerable period of time. However, I was wondering if the answers for the end of the chapter exercises are also available to the reviewers for establishing the accuracy. I have randomly checked a number of problems for mathematical accuracy and found no errors. In addition, inclusion of an index/glossary would have been really helpful for quick search. ![]() A comprehensive list of learning objective would be useful at the beginning of each chapter. Inclusion of Table of Contents in the PDF version would have assisted with the reviewing of the textbook. in Chapter 7 and Budgeting for merchandising organizations in Chapter 9 are some examples to mention. I found the book easy to follow however, a number of concepts could have been stretched further, such as, First-in-first-out method for Process Costing in Chapter 4, Lease or sell decision and replacing an old equipment with a new one etc. Although they are followed in a slightly different way and order than are pursued in the textbook I am currently using. The textbook covers the all the major concepts of managerial accounting. ![]() Reviewed by Salina Siddique, Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver on 5/22/19
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