Contents: Fundamentals and cost accumulation systems -- The Changing role of managerial accounting in a dynamic business environment -- Basic cost management concepts and accounting for mass customization operations -- Product costing and cost accumulationn in a batch production environment -- Cost management systems actiity -based costing, and activity - based management -- Activity-based costing and cost management systems -- Activity-based management and today's advanced manufacturing environment -- Planning, control, and cost management systems -- Activity analysis, cost behavior and cost estimation -- Cost volume - profit analysis -- Cost- volume profit analysis -- Profit planning, activity- based budgeting, and e- budgeting -- Standard coeting and performance measures today's manufacturing enviroment -- Flexible budgeting and the management of overhead and support activity costs -- Investment centers and transfer pricing -- Using accounting information in decision making -- Decision making: relevant costs and benefits -- Target costing and cost analysis for pricing decisions -- Capital expenditure decisions: an introduction -- Further aspects of capital expenditure decisions --Selected topics for further study -- Allocation of support activity costs and joint costs -- Absorption, variable, and throughput costing.