Includes appendix and index.

Contents: Introduction and overview: 1. Cost accounting: information for decision-making -- 2. Cost concepts and behavior -- Cost analysis and estimation: 3. Fundamentals of cost-volume-profit analysis -- 4. Fundamentals of cost analysis for decision making -- 5. Cost Estimation -- Cost management systems: 6. Fundamentals of product and service costing -- 7. Job costing -- 8. Process costing -- 9. Activity-based costing -- 10. Fundamentals of cost management -- 11. Service department and joint cost allocation -- Management control systems: 12. Fundamentals of management control systems -- 13. Planning and budgeting -- 14. Business unit performance measurement -- 15. Transfer pricing -- 16. Fundamentals of variance analysis -- 17. Additional topics in variance analysis -- 18. Performance measurement to support business strategy.