Managerial Accounting: Principles, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence

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Authors: Joseph Ugrin, Amy Igou

Publisher: Wiley

Published: August 2025

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781394265831

Language: English

Description

Timely managerial accounting textbook with coverage of artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics.

Recent developments in technology are transforming the field of managerial accounting. In Managerial Accounting: Principles, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence, readers learn to identify, measure, analyze, interpret, and communicate financial and operational information for internal decision-making, with a focus on the crossover between managerial accounting and information systems, artificial intelligence, and automation.

Along with foundational topics—job order costing, cost behavior and cost-volume-profit analysis, and planning and budgeting for operations—the book includes real-world business examples showing how managers use accounting to plan and decide. Ancillary materials on a companion website make this a complete “course in a box.”

For undergraduates in business and accounting programs, this is an up-to-date textbook on essential managerial accounting, featuring the latest technologies transforming the field.

About the Authors

Joseph Ugrin, PhD, CPA is the RSM Chair of Accounting and Head of the Department of Accounting at the University of Northern Iowa. With nearly three decades of experience in teaching, research, and industry, he has published extensively on accounting and information systems.

Amy Igou, PhD, CMA is the Halverson Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Northern Iowa, author of numerous articles on emerging technologies in business, and brings 19 years of corporate financial systems experience to her teaching and research.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Chapter 1 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
• Chapter 2 Accounting for the Costs of Products and Services
• Chapter 3 Job Order Costing
• Chapter 4 Process Costing
• Chapter 5 Activity-based Costing
• Chapter 6 Cost Behavior, the Cost Equation, and Cost-volume-profit Analysis
• Chapter 7 Relevant Data and Business Decision-making
• Chapter 8 Capital Budgeting, Planning, and Decision-making
• Chapter 9 Planning and Budgeting for Business Operations
• Chapter 10 Flexible Budgeting and Variance Analysis
• Chapter 11 Performance Evaluation
• Appendix A Technology Overview
• Appendix B Planning and Budgeting for Business Operations Using Spreadsheets
• Index

Why buy this book?

• Bridges classic managerial accounting with AI/automation for real-world decisions.
• Clear coverage of costing, CVP, budgeting, and performance with industry cases.
• Includes a companion website with slides, exercises, and test bank (course-ready).
• Excellent for teaching and for practitioners upskilling into analytics/AI.

Keywords

managerial accounting, artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, cost accounting, CVP analysis, budgeting, variance analysis, performance evaluation, Wiley

Target Audience

Undergraduate students, Accounting instructors, Finance managers, Controllers, Business analysts, MBA programs, Auditors, CFO teams, EdTech libraries, University bookstores

Genre

Accounting, Finance, Business, Data & Analytics, Education

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