Cost accounting provides key data to managers for planning and controlling, as well as costing products, services, even customers. Cost Accounting, 16e focuses on how this discipline would help managers make better decisions, as cost accountants are increasingly becoming integral members of company’s decision-making teams. In order to emphasize this prominence in decision making, the authors have used the ‘different costs for different purposes’ theme throughout this book. By focusing on basic concepts, analyses, uses, and procedures instead of procedures alone, they have recognized cost accounting as a managerial tool for business strategy and implementation. This textbook also prepares students for the rewards and challenges they face in the professional cost accounting world of today and tomorrow.
About the Author
Srikant M. Datar(Harvard University)/Madhav V. Rajan(Stanford University)
Features
Sustainability strategies and the methods that companies use to implement sustainability with
business goals.
Ideas based on academic research regarding the weights to be placed on performance
measures in a balanced scorecard.
Details on the transfer pricing strategies used by multinational technology firms such as Apple
and Google to minimize income taxes.
Current trends in the regulation of executive compensation.
Evolution of enterprise resource planning systems and newer simplified costing systems that
practice lean accounting.
New material around recent trends in big data and data analytics in predicting costs and when
making demand forecasts.
Table Content
1 The Manager and Management Accounting 1
2 An Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes 35
3 Cost–Volume–Profit Analysis 87
4 Job Costing 141
5 Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management 201
6 Master Budget and Responsibility Accounting 273
7 Flexible Budgets, Direct-Cost Variances, and Management Control 339
8 Flexible Budgets, Overhead Cost Variances, and Management Control 395
9 Inventory Costing and Capacity Analysis 457
10 Determining How Costs Behave 517
11 Decision Making and Relevant Information 579
12 Strategy, Balanced Scorecard, and Strategic Profitability Analysis 645
13 Pricing Decisions and Cost Management 711
14 Cost Allocation, Customer-Profitability Analysis, and Sales-Variance Analysis 765
15 Allocation of Support-Department Costs, Common Costs, and Revenues 825
16 Cost Allocation: Joint Products and Byproducts 873
17 Process Costing 921
18 Spoilage, Rework, and Scrap 973
19 Balanced Scorecard: Quality and Time 1023
20 Inventory Management, Just-in-Time, and Simplified Costing Methods 1075
21 Capital Budgeting and Cost Analysis 1131
22 Management Control Systems, Transfer Pricing, and Multinational Considerations 1183
23 Performance Measurement, Compensation, and Multinational Considerations 1237
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