Cost and management accounting: Management and operations – A Southern African approach

Ferina Marimuthu is a lecturer in Management Accounting at Durban University of Technology. She has lectured extensively on various accounting programmes from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, is actively involved in research in the fields of accounting education and financial management, and has authored several books on the accounting discipline. Ferina takes a keen interest in the development of learning materials and adding value to students' learning experience in the classroom.

Contents: Updated illustrative examples of activity-based costing and budgeting; Further explanations of complex standard costing variances; Risk and uncertainty analysis that includes Bayes Theorem; Further details on by-products in relation to the types of markets and proceeds; Figures to illustrate complex relevant cost identification; Cost estimation and forecasting techniques incorporating time series analysis; Revamped investment appraisal chapter; Alternative measures of performance for responsibility centres; Environmental costing using activity-based costing (ABC); Updated exercises including added professional body questions; Updated case studies based on real-life scenarios...