Management Accounting for Business Decisions

1. Introduction to management and cost accounting Part 1: Cost accumulation for stock valuation and profit measurement 2. Accounting for materials and labour 3. Accounting for overhead expenditure 4. Accounting entries for a job costing system 5. Process costing 6. Joint product and by-product 7. Absorption costing and variable costing Part 2: Information for decision-making 8. Cost-volume-profit analysis 9. Special studies: measuring relevant costs for decision-making 10. Activity-based costing 11. Accounting information for pricing decisions 12. Decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty Part 3: Information for planning and control 14 The budgeting process 15. Operational control, management control and performance measurement 16. Standard costing and variance analyses 17. Standard costing: 2 Further aspects 18. Behavioural aspects of accounting control systems 19. Organizational and social aspects of management accounting Part 4: Divisional performance evaluation 20. Measuring divisional profitability 21 Transfer pricing in divisionalized companies Part 5: Past, current and future developments in management accounting 22. Past, current and future developments in management accounting practice. Answers to self-assessment questions.