Management Accounting, Fifth Edition, Represents State-of-the-art Thinking On All Of The Major Topics In Management Accounting, Including Activity-based Management, The Balanced Scorecard, Target Costing, Value Chain Analysis And Management. Every Chapter In The New Edition Of Atkinson Now Includes An Opening Chapter Vignette Based On A Real Company Which Describes Realistic Business Problems That Can Benefit From Managerial Accounting Or Analysis Or Approaches. Robert S. Kaplan Is Considered The Worlds Leading Expert On Activity-based Costing And The Balanced Scorecard. For This Edition, He Has Revised And Reorganized Chapter On Activity-Based Cost Systems.