Transforming the Public Sphere or Accounting for Decision Making and Control

Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898

Author: Maria Grever

A comprehensive social history, Transforming the Public Sphere describes the planning and construction of the Exhibition of Women's Labor and the event itself -- the sights, the sounds, and the smells -- as well as the role of exhibitions in late-nineteenth-century public culture. The authors discuss how the 1898 exhibition displayed the range and variety of women's economic, intellectual, and artistic roles in Dutch culture, including their participation in such traditionally male professions as engineering, printing and publishing, and pharmacy. They examine how people and goods from the Dutch colonies were represented, most notably in an extensive open-air replica of a "Javanese village." Grever and Waaldijk reveal the tensions the exhibition highlighted: between women of different economic classes; between the goal of equal rights for women and the display of imperial subjects and spoils; and between socialists and feminists, who competed fiercely with one another for working women's support. Transforming the Public Sphere explores an event that served as the dress rehearsal for advances in women's public participation during the twentieth century.

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Accounting for Decision Making and Control

Author: Jerold L Zimmerman

Accounting for Decision Making and Control by Jerry Zimmerman continues to grow in popularity with instructors due to its emphasis on teaching students to critically evaluate and solve actual business problems. Zimmerman is able to achieve this through: 1) Strong conceptual framework; 2) Business orientation focusing on how organizations work; 3) Balance between concepts & practice; 4) Strongest problem material available.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	The Nature of Costs	25
3	Opportunity Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting	91
4	Organizational Architecture	143
5	Responsibility Accounting and Transfer Pricing	181
6	Budgeting	237
7	Cost Allocation: Theory	311
8	Cost Allocation: Practices	375
9	Absorption Cost Systems	425
10	Criticisms of Absorption Cost Systems: Incentive to Overproduce	493
11	Criticisms of Absorption Cost Systems: Inaccurate Product Costs	521
12	Standard Costs: Direct Labor and Materials	571
13	Overhead and Marketing Variances	609
14	Management Accounting in a Changing Environment	649
	Solutions to Concept Questions	703
	Glossary	713
	Index	723