Management accounting.

Includes Index.

What is management accounting? cost accounting and cost ascertainment -a revision; cost behaviour; assessment and revision section 1. Information and management accounting; planning - system concepts; long-term planning; budgeting; assessment and revision section 2. control - concepts and system principles; budgetary control; standard costing I; standard costing II; stock control; assessment and revision section 3. decision making - an introduction; marginal costing and C-V-P analysis; pricing decisions; linear programming; investment appraisal I; investment appraisal II; assessment and revision section 4. Divisional performance appraisal; transfer pricing; ratio analysis; AMT and management accounting; management accounting and computers; assessment and revision section 5. Solutions to assessment and revision section. Tables: present value factors; present value annuity factors; areas under the normal curve; compound interest. appendices: management accounting case studies; examination technique.

This text aims to provide a thorough understanding of management accounting and is designed principally for students preparing themselves for professional examinations. It features case studies and a lecturers' support pack. An LPBB edition is available.