Revised edition of the 5th edition of Management and cost accounting.

Includes index.

Contents: 1.Management and cost accounting fundamentals: The accountant's role in the organization -- An introduction to cost terms and purpose -- Job-costing systems -- Cost allocation -- Cost allocation: joint-cost situations -- Income effects of alternative stock-costing methods -- 2. Accounting information for decision making: Cost-volume-profit relationships -- Determining how costs behave -- Relevant information for decision making -- Activity-based costing -- Pricing, target costing and customer profitability analysis -- Capital investment decisions -- 3. Planning and budgetary control systems: Motivation, budgets and responsibility accounting -- Flexible budgets, variances and management control: I -- Flexible budgets, variances and management control: II -- Measuring yield, mix and quantity effects -- 4. Management control systems and performance issues: Control system and transfer pricing -- Control systems and performance measurement -- 5. Quality, time and strategic management of cost: Quality and throughput concerns in managing costs -- Accounting for just-in-time systems -- Strategic management accounting and emerging issues --