Includes index.

Contents: Managerial accounting and the business environment -- Managerial accounting and cost concepts -- Systems design: job-order costing -- Systems design: process costing -- Cost behavior: analysis and use -- Cost-volume-profit relationships -- Variable costing: a tool management -- Activity-based costing: a tool to aid decision making -- Profit planning -- Flexible budgets and performance analysis -- standard costs and operating performance measures -- Segment reporting, decentralization and the balanced scorecard --Relevant costs for decision making -- Capital budgeting decisions -- "How well am i doing?" Financial statement analysis -- Appendix: Pricing products and services -- profitability analysis --