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Management accounting for business / Colin Drury.

By: Drury, Colin.
Contributor(s): Drury, Colin. Management accounting for business decisions.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Thomson Learning, 2005Edition: 3d ed.Description: xxiv, 549 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1844801527; 9781844801527.Subject(s): Managerial accounting | Business and Management | Management accounting & bookkeepingDDC classification: 658.1511 | 658.15 DRU
Contents:
Part 1: Introduction to management and cost accounting -- Introduction to management accounting -- An introduction to cost terms and concepts -- Part 2: Information for decision-making -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Measuring relevant costs and revenues for decision-making -- Cost assignment -- Activity-based costing -- Pricing decisions and profitability analysis -- Decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty -- Capital investment decisions -- Part 3: Information for planning, control and performance measurement -- The budgeting process -- Management control systems -- Standard costing and variance analysis -- Divisional financial performance measures -- Transfer pricing in divisionalized companies -- Part 4: Cost management and strategic management accounting -- Cost management -- Strategic management accounting.
Summary: Aimed at non-accounting management students, this textbook offers a thorough introduction to management accounting, approaching the subject from a managerial perspective, without sacrificing accuracy or detail.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.1511 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00079897
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 658.15 DRU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 38888000467187
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Excludes the technical and more advanced content that is required by specialist accounting students, but offers the general business student a firm foundation in management accounting.

Previous ed.: published as Management accounting for business decisions. 2001.

Bibliography: (pages 495-498) and index.

Part 1: Introduction to management and cost accounting -- Introduction to management accounting -- An introduction to cost terms and concepts -- Part 2: Information for decision-making -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Measuring relevant costs and revenues for decision-making -- Cost assignment -- Activity-based costing -- Pricing decisions and profitability analysis -- Decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty -- Capital investment decisions -- Part 3: Information for planning, control and performance measurement -- The budgeting process -- Management control systems -- Standard costing and variance analysis -- Divisional financial performance measures -- Transfer pricing in divisionalized companies -- Part 4: Cost management and strategic management accounting -- Cost management -- Strategic management accounting.

Aimed at non-accounting management students, this textbook offers a thorough introduction to management accounting, approaching the subject from a managerial perspective, without sacrificing accuracy or detail.