Contents: Accounting information and managerial decisions -- The Costing of products and services: The Production process and product (service) costing -- Product costing measurement decisions -- Product costing for management decision: activity - based costing and activity - based management -- The Nature of costs in decision making : The Nature of costs -- cost behavoir and decision - making: cost - volume - profit analysis -- Accounting information, relevant costs, and decision making -- Long - term (capital investment) decisions -- Planning, performance evaluation, and control : The use of budgets in plannung and decision making -- The use of budgets for cost control and performance evaluation -- Other tools for cost control and performance evaluation -- Nonfinancial measures of performance -- The impact of management decisions : The Management of information and knowledge for better decisions -- Internal control and prevention of fraud -- Other topics: The Statement of cash flows: reporting and analyzing -- Financial statement analysis