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Fundamental Managerial Accounting Concepts focuses on the development of decision-making skills helping students to truly understand managerial accounting concepts and improving their ability to make sound business decisions. The text places a heavy emphasis on service and merchandisingcompanies. For example the budgeting chapter uses a merchandising businesswhile most traditional texts use a manufacturing company. Using a servicecompany is not only more relevant but also simplifies the learningenvironment thereby making it easier for students to focus on budgetingconcepts rather than procedural details. The Edmonds author team alsopromotes a student’s understanding of concepts by isolating and introducing theconcepts individually in decision-making contexts. This allows for students tonot only comprehend the concepts but also to understand how business conceptsinterrelate which is a very critical part of seeing the bigger picture inaccounting. Utilizing a heavy emphasis ondecision-making and a unique approach to how accounting concepts are introducedwill provide your students the foundational knowledge they need to succeed inthe classroom and beyond!