Cost and Management Accounting

JILL COLLIS is a researcher at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, and has written and edited a number of books for business students. She has several years experience of research consultancy and has recently completed two major studies concerned with small and medium-sized companies. ROGER HUSSEY is NWIS Professor of Financial Services at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, and Deloitte & Touche Fellow in Financial Reporting. He has wide experience in industry, teaching and research, and has published numerous books, reports and articles on accounting and management issues.

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Cost and Management Accounting in Context.- Cost Classification.- Costing for Materials.- Costing for Labour.- Integrated and Interlocking Accounts.- Allocation and Apportionment of Overheads.- Overhead Absorption.- Job and Batch Costing.- Contract Costing.- Continuous Operation Costing.- Process Costing.- By-Product Costing and Joint Product Costing.- Marginal Costing.- Marginal Costing and Decision-Making.- Break-Even Analysis.- Absorption Costing and Marginal Costing Compared.- Budgetary Control.- Budgets.- Standard Costing: Materials and Labour.- Standard Costing: Overhead Variances and Sales Variances.- Capital Investment Appraisal.- Developments in Management Accounting.- Appendix A: Present Value Tables.- Appendix B: Glossary.- Appendix C: Outline Answers to Practice Questions.- Index.