
Management and Cost Accounting
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Packed with illustrations, examples and real-life applications, 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.
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Up-to-date coverage of the impact of digitalisation and application of new technologies, including blockchain systems, artificial intelligence and more.
Sustainability practices are now given more space with new examples covering topics such as renewable energy and initiatives to lessen environmental impact.
A wealth of resources, including professional accountancy practice exercises, and end-of-chapter questions, provide opportunities to learn and develop exam ability.
A range of new real-life applications in 'Concepts in Action' boxes show how managers use accounting techniques in the business world.
Harvard Business School and other cutting-edge case studies illustrate how management accounting is deployed in different types of enterprise across the globe.
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Persons
Charles T. Horngren was the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Accounting at Stanford University.
Srikant M. Datar is the Dean of Harvard Business School.
Madhav V. Rajan is the Dean of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
Content
The manager and management accounting
An introduction to cost terms and purposes
Job costing
Process costing
Cost allocation
Cost allocation: joint-cost situations
Income effects of alternative stock-costing methods
Part 2 Accounting information for decision making
Cost-volume-profit analysis
Determining how costs behave
Relevant information for decision making
Activity-based costing
Pricing issues and customer profitability analysis
Capital investment decisions
Part 3 Planning and budgetary control systems
Motivation, budgets and responsibility accounting
Flexible budgets, variances and management control: I
Flexible budgets, variances and management control: II
Measuring yield, mix and quantity effects
Part 4 Management control systems
Control systems and transfer pricing
Control systems and performance measurement
Part 5 Strategy, quality, time and emerging issues
Strategy, the balanced scorecard and quality
Accounting, time and efficiency
Emerging issues: digitalisation and sustainability
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