Includes index.

Contents: Managerial accounting and the business environment -- Cost terms, concepts and classifications -- Systems design: job-order costing -- Systems design: process costing -- Cost behaviour: analysis and use -- Cost-volume-profit relationships -- Variable costing: a tool to aid decision making -- Profit planning -- Standard costs and the balanced scorecard -- Flexible budgets and overhead analysis -- Segment reporting and decentralization -- Relevant costs for decision making -- Capital budgeting decisions -- Service department costing: an activity approach -- "How well am i doing?" statement of cah flows -- Financial statement analysis -- Appendix.