Management Accounting

Author: Paresh Shah
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195695250
Published In: January 2009
Format: Paperback , 832 pages
Jurisdiction: India ? Disclaimer:
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Has been written in simple and easy-to-understand language.
Focusses on the uses of accounting information to resolve different managerial issues emerging in different organizations.
Provides numerous illustrative problems for better understanding and application.
Real-world cases to focus students on management accounting and to stimulate their interest.
Includes advanced topics like learning curve, target costing, capacity management, kaizen costing, quality costing, activity based costing, etc.
Accompanied by a CD containing Excel templates

Management Accounting is a comprehensive textbook specially designed to meet the needs of management students. It explores core concepts of management accounting through managerial applications and supplements them through numerous solved problems and case studies. Beginning with an overview to management accounting, the book acquaints the readers with the various cost concepts. It explains elements of cost like material costing, labour costing, direct expenses and overheads. It discusses the determination of cost through unit costing, job and batch costing, operating costing, contract costing and process costing. The book then discusses planning, control and decision making and management applications. The book also covers advanced topics like learning curve, target costing, capacity management, kaizen costing, quality costing, activity based costing, throughput back flush costing, etc. Users will find this book highly useful for its in-depth coverage of the key concepts of management accounting and also as a guide to make informed and systematic business decisions.

Readership: Management Accounting is a comprehensive textbook specially designed to meet the needs of management students. Users will find this book highly useful for its in-depth coverage of the key concepts of management accounting and the numerous solved problems and case studies.

PART I: COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
1: Overview to Management Accounting
2: Cost Concepts
PART II: ELEMENTS OF COST
3: Material Costing
4: Labour Costing
5: Direct Expenses and Overhead
PART III: DETERMINATION OF COST
6: Unit Costing
7: Job and Batch Costing
8: Operating Costing
9: Contract Costing
10: Process Costing
PART IV: PLANNING, CONTROL AND DECISION MAKING
11: Financial Statements and Its Analysis
12: Budgeting and Bedgetary Control System
13: Standard Costing and Variance Analysis
14: Responsibility Accounting
15: Cost Audit and Cost Accounting Standards
PART V: MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
16: Marginal Costing and C-V-P Analysis
17: Decisions Involving Alternative Choices
18: Pricing Decisions
19: Activity Based and Target Costing
20: Capacity Management and Learning Curve
21: Contemporary Issues in Management
a. Accounting
b. Life Cycle Costing
c. Quality Costing
d. Kaizen Costing
e. Throughput Costing
f. Backflush Costing