Cost and Management Accounting

Ferina Marimuthu is a Management Accounting lecturer at the Durban University of Technology. She has extensive lecturing experience in Cost and Management Accounting from basic to advanced levels which has included lecturing on the Unisa BCompt and CTA programmes. Ferina takes a keen interest in learning materials development and adding value to students' learning experience. She has also been involved with the writing of a variety of accounting textbooks and acted as reviewer on several books both locally and internationally.

About the authors; How to use this book; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 The context of management accounting; 2 Basic cost accounting, cost classification, behaviour and estimation; 3 Inventory management and control; 4 Labour cost and control; 5 Manufacturing overheads; 6 Job costing and the flow of manufacturing cost; 7 Construction contract costing; 8 Process costing; 9 Budgets; 10 Standard costing; 11 Integrated and interlocking accounting systems; 12 Direct and absorption costing; 13 Cost-volume-profit analysis; 14 Decision making; 15 Pricing decisions; 16 Investment appraisal; 17 Management information.