Management and cost accounting /
Alnoor Bhimani ... [et al.].
- 5th ed.
- Harlow, England ; New York : Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2012.
- 1 v. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 898-910) and index.
1. The accountant's role in the organisation -- 2. An introduction to cost terms and purposes -- 3. Job costing systems -- 4. Process costing systems -- 5. Cost allocation -- 6. Cost allocation: Joint cost situation -- 7. Income effects of alternative stock costing methods -- 8. Cost-volume-profit relationships -- 9. Determining how costs behave -- 10. Relevant Information for decision making -- 11. Activity-based costing -- 12. Pricing, target costing and customer profitability analysis -- 13. Capital investment decisions -- 14. Motivation, budgets and responsibility accounting -- 15. Flexible budgets, variances and management control: I -- 16. Flexible budgets, variances and management control: II -- 17. Measuring yield, mix and quantity effects -- 18. Control systems and transfer pricing -- 19. Control systems and performance measurement -- 20. Quality and throughput concerns in management costs -- 21. Accounting for just-in-time systems -- 22. Strategic management accounting and emerging issues.
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