Management and Cost Accounting (with CourseMate and eBook Access)

Colin Drury is Emeritus Professor at Huddersfield University and a leading textbook author for a generation of accounting students. His books have been widely recommended by the main UK professional accountancy bodies for their examinations. He has been an active researcher and his research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Management Accounting Research and European Accounting Review. Colin has been given a life-time achievement award by the British Accounting and Finance association.

PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT AND COST ACCOUNTING
1 Introduction to management accounting
2 An introduction to cost terms and concepts
PART 2: COST ACCUMULATION FOR INVENTORY VALUATION AND PROFIT MEASURE
3 Cost assignment
4 Accounting entries for a job costing system
5 Process costing
6 Joint and by-product costing
7 Income effects of alternative cost accumulation systems
PART 3: INFORMATION FOR DECISION-MAKING
8 Cost–volume–profit analysis
9 Measuring relevant costs and revenues for decision-making
10 Pricing decisions and profitability analysis
11 Activity-based costing
12 Decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty
13 Capital investment decisions: appraisal methods
14 Capital investment decisions: the impact of capital rationing, taxation, inflation and risk
PART 4: INFORMATION FOR PLANNING, CONTROL AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
15 The budgeting process
16 Management control systems
17 Standard costing and variance analysis 1
18 Standard costing and variance analysis 2: further aspects
19 Divisional financial performance measures
20 Transfer pricing in divisionalized companies
PART 5: STRATEGIC COST AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
21 Strategic cost management
22 Strategic performance management
PART 6: THE APPLICATION OF QUANTITATIVE METHODS TO MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
23 Cost estimation and cost behaviour
24 Quantitative models for the planning and control of inventories
25 The application of linear programming to management accounting