Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision Making, 4th Edition

About the Author

Dr Paul M. Collier PhD (Warwick), BBus (NSWIT), MComm (NSW), Grad Dip Ed (UTS), CPA (Aust) is Professor of Accounting at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He was until 2006 a senior lecturer at Aston Business School in Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Paul has worked in senior financial and general management roles in the UK and Australia. He was chief financial officer and company secretary and subsequently general manager (operations) for a public listed company in Sydney before moving to the UK in 1993. He also worked in the public sector before completing his PhD and moving to academia.

Paul has been a board member and chair of the audit committee of a non-profit distributing housing association in the UK with assets of £200 million; and a board member, chair of the finance and resources committee and member of the audit committee of a health service in Australia with a budget of over $350 million. He has been an examiner for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in the UK, and has written study material for both CIMA and CPA Australia.

This book uses material developed by the author based on his experience as a practitioner, in his teaching at Aston and Monash, and in delivering financial training to non-financial managers in diverse industries over many years. Paul’s research interests are in the use of management accounting and non-financial performance information in decision making and the behavioural aspects of management ...