Includes index.

Contents: Introduction and overview: Cost accounting: information for decision making -- Cost concepts and behaviour -- Cost analysis and estimation: Fundamentals of cost analysis for decision making -- Cost estimation -- Cost management systems: Fundamentals of product and service costing -- Job costing -- Process costing -- Activity-based costing -- Fundamentals of cost management -- Service department and joint cost allocation -- Management control systems: Fundamentals of management control systems -- Planning and budgeting -- Business unit performance measurement -- Transfer pricing -- Fundamentals of variance analysis -- Special topic in variance analysis -- Nonfinancial and multiple measure of performance evaluation -- Appendix.