Chapter 1: an overview of managerial accounting -- managerial accounting and financial accounting, work of management, planning and control cycle, differences b/w managerial accounting and financial accounting, comparing merchandising and manufacturing activities, Chapter 2: managerial accounting and cost concepts -- classifications of costs, manufacturing and non-manufacturing costs, product costs versus period costs, cost classifications for predicting cost behavior, fixed costs and variable costs, direct and indirect costs, differential costs and revenues, opportunity and sunk costs.