"Fundamentals of Cost Accounting" provides a direct, realistic, and efficient way to learn cost accounting, integrated with new technology learning tools. Fundamentals is short (approximately 700 pages) making it easy to cover in one semester. The authors have kept the text concise by focusing on the key concepts students need to master. The Decision opening vignettes and Business Application boxes show realistic applications of these concepts throughout. All chapters conclude with a Debrief that links the topics in the chapter to the decision problem faced by the manager in the opening vignette. Comprehensive end of chapter material provides students with all the practice they need to fully learn each concept.
McGraw-Hill Connect Accounting Plus provides students every advantage as they strive to understand the key concepts of cost accounting and its role in business. Connect Accounting Plus offers a complete digital solution with a robust online learning and homework management system, an integrated media rich eBook, assignable end of chapter material, algorithmic functionality, and reporting capabilities. Contained within Connect Accounting is McGraw-Hill's adaptive learning system, LearnSmart, which is designed to help students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge for greater success.
Introduction and Overview
- Cost Accounting: Information for Decision Making
- Cost Concepts and Behavior
Cost Analysis and Estimation
- Fundamentals of Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
- Fundamentals of Cost Analysis for Decision Making
- Cost Estimation
Cost Management Systems
- Fundamentals of Product and Service Costing
- Job Costing
- Process Costing
, etc.
Management Control Systems
- Fundamentals of Management Control Systems
- Planning and Budgeting
- Business Unit Performance Measurement
, etc.
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