Include Appendix,glossary and index

Contents: The accountant's role in the organization -- An introduction to cost term and purposes -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Job costing -- Activity-based costing and activity-based management -- Master budget and responsibility accounting -- Flexible budgets, direct-cost variances, and management control -- Flexible budgets, overhead cost variances and management control -- Inventory costing and capacity analysis -- Determining how cost behave -- Decision making and relevant information -- Pricing decisions and cost management -- Strategy, balanced scorecard,and strategic profitability analysis -- Cost allocation:joint products and byproducts -- Process costing -- Spoilage, rework,and scrap -- Balanced scorecard:quality, time and the theory of constraints -- Inventory management, just-in-time,and simplified costing methods -- Capital budgeting and cost analysis -- Management control systems,transfer pricing,and multinational considerations -- Performance measurement, compensation and multinational considerations.