New Features:

• Cost management focus
• Realistic company settings
• Decision-making emphasis
• Best cost management practices
• Relevant and sound research findings
• Strong pedagogy

Chapter Learning Objectives, presented at the front of the chapter, are referenced in the margin throughout the chapter and then referenced again in the end-of-chapter questions. Learning objective indicators identify material in the chapter that relates directly to the chapter objectives.

Cost Management Challenges: Placed at the front of the chapter, these questions/issues are intended to challenge students to master the chapter's content. The answers to them are provided in the end-of-chapter material.

Focus Company: A realistic and comprehensive illustration designed to stimulate students' interest in cost management topics. All the topics in the chapter are covered in the context of the focus company. The illustration begins with a company document in the chapter opener, and the scenario runs throughout the chapter. This threaded discussion is marked in the chapter material by the company logo in the margin.

Boxes (4 to 11 per chapter):

• Research Insight — relates relevant and sound research findings to the chapter's topic
• You're the Decision Maker — decision scenario, actively engages the students in the decisions faced by the focus company
• Cost Management in Practice — highlights cost management practices of real-world organizations

Marginalia

• Running Glossary — key terms are bold in text, defined in margin
• Corporate Logos — logos that appear on the corporate communication pieces in the chapter opener
• Icons — mark special areas of special interest/processes: Ethics, Technology, Team, Global, Group, and Communication. Note that the latter two of these are only found in the end of chapter materials.
• Web Links — these relate a topic to a relevant organization/company — this feature is new to the Canadian edition