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Product Description With its easy-to-understand presentation and hands-on learning approach, MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: A FOCUS ON ETHICAL DECISION MAKING, 5E, gives you everything you need to know as you face the challenges and rewards of the business world. The authors use realistic companies and real issues to clearly illustrate concepts without getting into complex, extraneous data that can be confusing. An innovative and easy-to-learn five-step problem-solving methodology gives you a proven decision-making framework that will help you define the problem, identify the objectives, analyze available options, and select the best solution. Jackson/Sawyers/Jenkins will help you make sense of the numbers to become a better decision maker. About the Author Steve Jackson, C.P.A., is an Associate Professor at The University of Southern Mississippi. He earned a Ph.D. from Arizona State University and a B.S. from the University of Montana. Professor Jackson is a co-author of Managerial Accounting: A Focus on Ethical Decision Making in its fifth edition, published by Cengage Learning. Professor Jackson has published articles in such referenced journals as Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Journal of Economic and Business Perspectives, Journal of Business and Economic Research, Accounting Educators Journal, and Journal of Accountancy. His research interests are in accounting education and behavioral issues in Ethics and Auditing. He has more than 23 years of teaching experience. Dr. Jackson has taught courses in managerial accounting and strategic cost management, auditing and assurance, and financial accounting at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Professor Jackson has received numerous teaching and research awards. Dr. Jackson's professional activities include membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Accounting Association, the Ins