Includes index

Contents: What is costing accounting? -- The framework of cost accounting -- Classification and coding -- Materials-purchasing, reception and storage -- Materials-stock recording and inventory control -- Materials-pricing issues and stocks -- Labour- remuneration methods -- Labour-recording, costing and allied procedures -- Overheads -- Cost accounts -- Costing accounting methods: introduction -- Costing accounting methods: job and batch costing -- Costing accounting methods: operaion and service costing -- Costing accounting methods: process costing -- Costing accounting methods: joint product and by-product costing -- Planning, control and decision making -- Cost bahaviour -- Variable (or Marginal) and absorption costing -- Short-run decision making -- Break-even analysis -- Capital investment appraisal -- Budgets -- Standard costing- introduction -- Standard costing- variance analysis(Material, labour and Overhead) -- Uniform costing -- Cost accounting and computers --