Includes index.

Contents: Managerial accounting and the business environment -- Cost terms, concepts and classification -- Systems design: job-order costing -- Systems design: process costing -- Cost behaviour: analysis and use -- Cost volume-profit relationships -- Variable costing: a tool for management -- Activity based costing: a tool to aid decision making -- Profit plannig -- Standard cost and the balances scorecard -- Flexible budgets and overhead analysis -- Segment reporting and decentralization -- Relevant costs for decision making -- Capital budgeting decisions -- Service department costing: an activity approach -- How well am i doing? statement of cash flows -- Financial statement analysis -- Appendix.