Includes index and glossary.

Contents: Accounting as a tool for management: Focus on C&C sports -- Cost behaviour and cost estimation -- Cost-volume-profit analysis and pricing decisions -- Product costing for manufacturing companies: Focus on process costing -- Focus on variable and absorption costing -- Planning and forecasting -- Performance evaluation: Variance analysis: Focus on standard costing systems -- Activity-based costing and activity-based management: Focus on customer profitability -- Using accounting information to make managerial decisions -- Capital budgeting -- Decentralization and performance evaluation -- Performance evaluation: revisited: A Balanced approach -- Financial statement analysis -- Statement of cash flows.