TY - BOOK AU - Bhimani,Alnoor TI - Management and cost accounting / SN - 9780273757450 U1 - 657.42 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Harlow, England ; , New York : PB - Financial Times/Prentice Hall, KW - Cost accounting KW - Managerial accounting N1 - 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 N2 - This popular text offers clear and comprehensive coverage of management and cost accounting for students and professionals. Rich in examples and real-life applications, it brings technical and theoretical concepts to life. The international focus is supported by a wealth of case studies featuring companies from around the world ER -