
Management and Cost Accounting
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This bestseller text offers clear, simple to understand and comprehensive coverage of management and cost accounting for students and professionals.
Packed with illustrations, examples and real-life applications, Management and Cost Accounting brings together techniques, concepts and practices in a highly readable way. Keeping its international focus, the text includes a wealth of case studies featuring companies from around the world, and includes up-to-date coverage of AI and robotics and other technology which affects management accounting. Applications are explained using illustrations from real corporations, plus the text includes professional accountancy examination questions to help you practice. This book will help you learn about the aspects of management accounting that are essential in your study and your future performance in the workplace.
Key Features
- Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, 3-D printing, the Internet of Things, and Big Data analytics.
- Expanded and revised sections on strategic management accounting, the balanced scorecard, quality costing, governance and sustainability, as well as aspects of internet entrepreneurship.
- A wealth of resources including professional accountancy practice exercises and end-of-chapter questions providing opportunities to learn and develop exam agility.
- Harvard Business School and other cutting edge case studies that illustrate how management accounting is deployed in enterprises across locations and situations.
- A range of new Concepts in Action boxes and the latest Surveys of Corporate Practices showing how accounting techniques are used by managers in the business world.
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Alnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting and previous Head of LSE's Department of Accounting and Director of Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Charles T. Horngren was the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Accounting at Stanford University.
Srikant M. Datar is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab at Harvard Business School.
Madhav V. Rajan is the Dean of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
Content
Contents ix
Guide to the case studies xvi
Preface xix
Authors' acknowledgements xxii
Publisher's acknowledgements xxv
PART I Management and cost accounting fundamentals
1 The manager and management accounting
2 An introduction to cost terms and purposes
3 Job costing
4 Process costing
5 Cost allocation
6 Cost allocation: joint-cost situations
7 Income effects of alternative stock-costing methods
Part I Case study problems
PART II Accounting information for decision making
8 Cost-volume-profit analysis
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
Part II Case study problems
PART III Planning and budgetary control systems
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
Part III Case study problems
PART IV Management control systems and performance issues
18 Control systems and transfer pricing
19 Control systems and performance measurement
Part IV Case study problems
PART V Strategy, quality, time and emerging issues
20 Strategy, the balanced scorecard and quality
21 Accounting, time and efficiency
22 Emerging issues: digital technologies, governance and sustainability
Part V Case study problems
Appendix A: Solutions to selected exercises
Appendix B: Notes on compound interest and interest tables
Glossary
Names index
Subject index