Management Accounting

"Management Accounting is a comprehensive textbook specially designed to meet the needs of management students.

It explores core concepts of management accounting through managerial applications and supplements them through numerous solved problems and case studies.

Divided into five parts, the first part on Cost and Management Accounting gives an overview of management accounting and acquaints the readers with the basic principles of cost accounting, costing, cost accountancy, and its differentiation with financial accounting. The second part covers Elements of Cost, which emphasizes the recognition of compilation of material costs for products, different material control procedures and techniques, labour cost compilation, recognition and booking. It also focuses upon the importance and treatment of indirect expenses of the business. The part on Determination of Cost is devoted to determining and compiling the cost by service and manufacturing activities. It is followed by the part on Planning, Controlling, and Decision-Making, which discusses the analytical tools of financial accounting, cost accounting, and management accounting. Finally, the section on Management Applications imparts an understanding of the management accounting tools and techniques used by managers in the present business environment.

Students and business managers will find this book highly useful for its in-depth coverage of the key concepts of management accounting and also as a guide to make informed and systematic business decisions."

Contents: Preface. Part 1. Cost and Management Accounting: 1. Overview to Management Accounting. 2. Cost Concepts. Part 2. Elements Of Cost: 3. Material Costing. 4. Labour Costing. 5. Direct Expenses and Overheads. Part 3. Determination of Cost. 6. Unit Costing. 7. Job and Batch Costing. 8. Operating Costing. 9. Contract Costing. 10. Process Costing. Part 4. Planning, Control, and Decision-Making: 11. Financial Statement Analysis. 12. Budgeting and Budgetary Control. 13. Standard Costing and Variance Analysis. 14. Responsibility Accounting. 15. Cost Audit and Cost Accounting Standards. Part 5. Management Applications: 16. Marginal Costing and CVP Analysis. 17. Decisions Involving Alternative Choices. 18. Pricing Decisions. 19. Activity Based and Target Costing. 20. Capacity Management and Learning Curve. 21. Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting. Select Bibliography. Index.