TY - BOOK AU - Mowen, Maryanne M. AU - Hansen, Don R. TI - Introduction to cost accounting SN - 9780538749633 U1 - 657.42 PY - 2011/// [i.e. 2010] CY - Australia PB - South-Western Cengage Learning, KW - Cost accounting N1 - Includes index; Part I: FOUNDATION CONCEPTS.1. Introduction to Cost Management.2. Basic Cost Management Concepts.3. Cost Behavior.4. Activity-Based Costing.Part II: FUNDAMENTAL COSTING AND CONTROL.5. Product and Service Costing: Job-Order System.6. Process Costing.7. Allocating Costs of Support Departments and Joint Products.8. Budgeting for Planning and Control.9. Standard Costing: A Functional-Based Control Approach.10. Decentralization: Responsibility Accounting, Performance Evaluation, and Transfer Pricing.Part III: ADVANCED COSTING AND CONTROL.11. Strategic Cost Management.12. Activity-Based Management.13. The Balanced Scorecard: Strategic-Based Control.14. Quality and Environmental Cost Management.15. Productivity Measurement and Control and Lean Accounting.Part IV: DECISION MAKING.16. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis.17. Activity Resource Usage Model and Tactical Decision Making.18. Pricing and Profitability Analysis.19. Capital Investment.20. Inventory Management: Economic Order Quantity, JIT, and the Theory of Constraints N2 - Allowing you to discover the nature of cost management, this title takes you through relevant topics such as lean accounting and the technological aspects of cost accounting. It follows a Cornerstones learning approach that guides you through the equations step-by-step, helping you understand the core cost management concepts ER -