Cost accounting is a dynamic discipline constantly responding to the needs of managers in a global and highly competitive business world. Managers need cost accounting tools to develop, implement, and evaluate strategy. Managers also need cost accounting methods to determine product costs for internal management and external financial reporting. The sixth edition of Cost Accounting provudes in-depth coverage of cost management concepts and procedures in a logically sequenced and reader-friendly framework.
Students will find cost accouting applicable to their business and personal lives when presented in a readable and interesting format. A text is useless if students do not understand the significance and relevancy of the subject to their professional and personal lives. We believe students and faculty will find the contents of this edition of cost management dynamic and fun to learn.
Chapter 1 Introduction to Cost Accounting
Chapter 2 Cost Terminology and Cost Behaviors
Chapter 3 Predermined Overhead Rates, Flexible Budgets, and Absortion/variable Costing
Chapter 4 Job Order Costing
Chapter 5 Activity-Based Management and Actitity-Based Costing
Chapter 6 Process Costing
Chapter 7 Standard Costing and Variance Analysis
Chapter 8 The Master Budget
Chapter 9 Break-Even Point and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
Chapter 10 Relevant Information for Decision Making
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