Description

The integrated solutions for Lanen/Anderson/Maher’s Fundamentals of Cost Accounting, 4e have been proven to help you achieve your course goals of improving student readiness, enhancing student engagement, and increasing their comprehension of content. Known for its clear and engaging style, the Lanen solution employs the use of real-world scenarios, LearnSmart, and instant feedback on practice problems to help students engage with course materials, comprehend the content, and achieve higher outcomes in the course.

Our new Intelligent Response Technology-based content offers students an intelligent homework experience that helps them stay focused on learning instead of navigating the technology.

Finally, McGraw-Hill’s adaptive learning component, LearnSmart, provides assignable modules that help students master core concepts and come to class more prepared. LearnSmart with Lanen is an introductory managerial accounting review, providing students with a refresher on these topics for their cost accounting course.

Providing a Clear View

For a student, taking a cost accounting course can be like fi nding yourself in tall grass: surrounded by dense concepts and far from the path to mastery. Fundamentals of Cost Accounting gives students a clear view by lifting them above the overgrowth. By focusing on the fundamental concepts that students will need and employing a conversational writing style that keeps them engaged throughout the course, Fundamentals focuses students on comprehension rather than memorization and provides a context for their learning. The material is presented from both a preparer and a user perspective, allowing instructors to provide both accounting majors and nonmajors with an effective and relevant understanding of cost accounting topics. In this fourth edition, the text continues to provide the following core features

Readability
Fundamentals of Cost Accounting continues to be praised as one of the most readable texts on the market. Lanen, Anderson, and Maher employ a conversational writing style that students can understand, making concepts and topics more accessible. Throughout the text, exhibits and illustrations provide visuals to further assist students in understanding how complex topics fi t together in a logical way.

Conciseness
Short, readable chapters that focus on core cost accounting concepts give Lanen, Anderson, and Maher a leg up on the competition. While other texts tend to tack on topics and fi t concepts into chapters in seemingly arbitrary ways, Fundamentals of Cost Accounting presents basic topics in a coherent sequence, helping students to see the integration of the concepts quickly and easily.

Relevance
Each chapter of Fundamentals of Cost Accounting opens with The Decision— a real dilemma faced by a manager in one of a variety of service and manufacturing companies. These vignettes tie in to the Business Application boxes later in the chapter, which highlight related issues reported in the business world and the authors’ own experiences with companies where they have worked or conducted research, demonstrating the relevance of cost accounting to the real world. The Debrief feature links the topics in the chapter to the decision dilemma faced by the manager in the opening vignette