Contents: Cost concepts -- Marginal costing -- Break- even and CVP analysis -- Budgeting and budegetary control -- Standard cossting and variance analysis -- Differential opportunity and relevant costing -- Costg in service sector -- Joint products and by- products -- Pricing strategies -- Responsibility accounting and divisional performance measurement -- Transfer pricing -- Cost of labour turnover strike and economics of training & development -- Cost control and cost reduction -- Activity based costing -- Life cycle costing -- Life cycle costing Target costing -- Kaizen -- Cost of quality and TQM -- Capacity management -- Productivity -- Just in time -- MRP I, MRP II, ERP and world class manufacturing -- Balanced scorecard and benchmarking -- Business process outsourcing and value chain management -- Business process re- engineering and synergy -- Managemment information systems and information economics -- Marketing and distribution cost analysis -- Strategic management accounting -- Learning curve theory -- Linear programming -- Network analysis -- Assignment problems -- Transportation problems -- Inventatry control models-- lastes problems and solutions -- Mathematical tables -- Syllabus for CA final ( cost management)