Includes index

Contents: What is costing -- The framework of cost accounting -- Classification and coding -- Materials-purchasing, reception and storage -- Materials-stock recording and inventory control -- Materials-pricing issues and stocks -- Labour- remuneration methods -- Labour-recording, costing and allied procedures -- Overheads -- Cost accounts -- Costing methods-introduction -- job and batch costing -- operaion and service costing -- process costing -- joint product and by-product costing -- Planning, control and decision making -- Cost bahaviour -- Marginal and absorption costing -- Short-run decision making -- Break-even analysis -- Capital investment appraisal -- Budgets -- Standard costing- introduction -- variance analysis --Uniform costing -- Case exercises.