Management accounting: text, problems and cases

Preface to the Eighth Edition
Preface to the First Edition


Part 1 Background
Chapter 1 Nature of Management Accounting


Part 2 Financial Accounting
Chapter 2 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and Accounting Standards
Chapter 3 Accounting Cycle and Statements of Financial Information
Chapter 4 Understanding Corporate Financial Statements and Reports


PART 3 Financial Analysis
Chapter 5 Statement of Cash Flows
Chapter 6 Financial Statements Analysis


PART 4 Cost Accumulation
Chapter 7 Cost Concepts and Management Needs
Chapter 8 Costing and Control of Materials
Chapter 9 Costing and Control of Labour
Chapter 10 Costing and Control of Factory (Manufacturing) Overheads
Chapter 11 Costing and Control of Administrative, Selling and Distribution
Chapter 12 Activity Based Costing System
Chapter 13 Job-order, Batch and Service Costing
Chapter 14 Process, Joint and By-product Costing
Chapter 15 Variable Costing and Absorption


PART 5 Profit Planning
Chapter 16 Volume-Cost-Profit Analysis
Chapter 17 Budgeting and Profit Planning


PART 6 Cost Control
Chapter 18 Standard Costs and Quality Costs
Chapter 19 Cost Variances Analysis
Chapter 20 Revenue and Profit Variance Analysis
Chapter 21 Responsibility Accounting 2
Chapter 22 Balanced Scorecard


PART 7 Decision-Making
Chapter 23 Short-run Decision Analysis
Chapter 24 Capital Budgeting

Management Accounting, now in its eighth edition, continues to offer its readers an in-depth analysis regarding usage of accounting information for financial analysis, profit planning, cost control and decision- making. The authors have adopted an exceptional outcome-based learning approach to provide a comprehensive analysis of the concepts, theories and techniques of management in a simple yet lucid style.
This book will be suitable for the students and teachers of management and finance, commerce and accounting discipline as well as for practicing managers.