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Management and cost accounting / Charles T. Horngren, Alnoor Bhimani, Srikant M. Datar and George Foster.

By: Horngren, Charles T, 1926-2011 [author].
Contributor(s): Bhimani, Alnoor | Datar, Srikant M | Foster, George, 1948-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Harlow, UK : Pearson Education Limited, 2002Edition: 2nd edition.Description: xxiv, 919p. + pbk. ill.ISBN: 0273651838; 9780273651833.Subject(s): Cost accounting | Managerial accounting | Management | Managerial accounting -- Europe | Cost accounting -- Europe | Business and Management | Management accounting & bookkeeping | Cost accountingDDC classification: 658.1511 HOR Summary: Including European and Harvard Business School cases, this book has been adapted to suit a UK/European syllabus. The Euro is used as the reference currency throughout the text, whilst a range of individual currencies are used in the questions.
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This second edition of Management and Cost Accounting delivers a winning combination of contemporary issues, a strong European focus, applications, professional questions, and cases, all supported by a richly-resourced website. Management and Cost Accounting is the European adaptation of Horngren, Datar and Foster's leading US text, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis. The content has been significantly revised to reflect management accounting syllabuses across Europe. The new edition has been updated to focus on the concerns of management accountants in the modern economy. Features *A balance between modern management concerns and technical issues *NEW - issues emerging from the 'new economy' *NEW - a chapter dedicated to Strategic Management Accounting *End-of-chapter assignments, from short questions, through simple exercises, to professional-level questions *In-depth European and Harvard Business School case studies *A range of European currencies, with the euro as main reference currency *Four-colour, reader-friendly design including a walk-through preface explaining how to use the book for maximum learning Management and Cost Accounting is supported by a website at www.boo

Original 10th edition, entitled 'cost accounting' published by: Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 1999.

Includes index.

Including European and Harvard Business School cases, this book has been adapted to suit a UK/European syllabus. The Euro is used as the reference currency throughout the text, whilst a range of individual currencies are used in the questions.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part 1 Management and Cost Accounting Fundamentals
  • 1 The accountant's role in the organisation
  • 2 An introduction to cost terms and purposes
  • 3 Job costing systems
  • 4 Process costing systems
  • 5 Cost allocation
  • 6 Cost allocation: Joint cost situation
  • 7 Income effects of alternative stock costing methods
  • Part I Cast study problems
  • Part 2 Accounting Information For Decision-Making
  • 8 Cost volume profit relationships
  • 9 Determining how costs behave
  • 10 Revenues, costs and the decision process
  • 11 Activity based costing
  • 12 Pricing decisions and profitability analysis
  • 13 Capital investment decisions
  • Part II case study problems
  • Part 3 Planning and Budgetaryc Ontol Systems
  • 14 Motivation, budgets and responsibility accounting
  • 15 Flexible budgets, variances and management control: I
  • 16 Flexible budgets, variances and management control: II
  • 17 Measuring yield, mix and quantity effects
  • Part III Case study problems
  • Part 4 Management Control Systems and Performance Issues
  • 18 Control systems and transfer pricing
  • 19 Control systems and performance measurement
  • Part IV Case study problems
  • Part 5 Emerging Management Accounting Issues
  • 20 Quality and throughput issues in management costs
  • 21 Time and strategy as emerging issues in cost management
  • 22 Strategic management accounting
  • Part V Case study problems
  • Appendix A Solutions to selected exercises
  • Appendix B Notes on compound interest and interest tables