Management and Cost Accounting For Dummies
UK Edition
Published on 20. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-118-65049-3 (ISBN)
Description
With easy-to-understand explanations and real-life examples, Management & Cost Accounting For Dummies provides students and trainees with the basic concepts, terminology and methods to identify, measure, analyse, interpret, and communicate accounting information in the context of managerial decision-making.
Major topics include:
* cost behaviour
* cost analysis
* profit planning and control measures
* accounting for decentralized operations
* budgeting decisions
* ethical challenges in management and cost accounting
Reviews / Votes
'This book is perfect for college students, those studying level 3 and 4 at AAT, as well as the operational levels at CIMA, or those on the fundamental ACCA courses.' (PQ Magazine, January 2014).More details
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Additional editions
Mark P. Holtzman | Sandy Hood
Management and Cost Accounting For Dummies - UK, UK Edition
E-Book
09/2013
Wiley
€20.99
Available for download
Mark P. Holtzman | Sandy Hood
Management and Cost Accounting For Dummies - UK, UK Edition
E-Book
08/2013
Wiley
€20.99
Available for download
Persons
Mark P. Holtzman, PhD, CPA, is Chair of the Department of Accounting and Taxation, Seton Hall University. He has taught accounting at college level for 17 years. Sandy Hood is a lecturer in management and cost accounting. He also lectures on the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy course, a one-year course that helps budding entrepreneurs set up their own businesses and learn practical business skills.
Content
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Management and Cost Accounting 7
Chapter 1: Planning and Control: The Role of Management Accounting 9
Chapter 2: Using Management Accounting in Your Business 27
Part II: Understanding and Managing Costs 45
Chapter 3: Classifying Direct and Indirect Costs 47
Chapter 4: Allocating, Apportioning and Absorbing Overhead 71
Chapter 5: Costing Products Flowing Through a Business 95
Chapter 6: Job Costing: Pricing Individual Orders 105
Chapter 7: Process Costing: Tracking What's Produced and How Much it Costs 119
Chapter 8: Observing How Variable and Fixed Costs Behave 143
Part III: Planning and Budgeting 161
Chapter 9: Using Contribution Analysis to Make Better Decisions 163
Chapter 10: Decision-Making Within the Reality of Limited Capacity 189
Chapter 11: Deciding on Long-Term Purchases: Capital Budgeting 205
Chapter 12: Naming Your Price: Approaches to Decision-Making 229
Chapter 13: Doing Deals between Company Divisions: Transfer Prices 243
Chapter 14: Planning Budgets for the Future 259
Part IV: Using Management Accounting for Evaluation and Control 279
Chapter 15: Using Flexible Budgets to Exert Control 281
Chapter 16: Variance Analysis: Flexing Standard Costs 293
Chapter 17: Establishing Accountability with Responsibility Accounting 317
Chapter 18: The Balanced Scorecard: Reviewing Your Business's Report Card 329
Chapter 19: Squeezing Out of a Tight Spot with the Theory of Constraints 347
Part V: The Part of Tens 357
Chapter 20: Ten Key Management Accounting Formulas 359
Chapter 21: Ten Careers in Management Accounting 371
Index 375