New Jersey accountant Maskell, Bruce Baggaley, and Larry Grasso (both Central Connecticut State U. update their 2004 textbook for academic or corporate courses for finance managers in companies seeking to transition their organization to lean enterprises. Some of the material has been revised, but the main changes have been to add over 200 exercises, problems, and teacher guides with test questions and case material. Among the topics are the maturity path to lean accounting, value stream performance measurements, eliminating wasteful transactions, the lean enterprise, and the lean accounting diagnostic. A CD-ROM is included. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)