Familiarise your students with the real business world and the principal management accounting techniques.Packed with illustrations, examples and real-life applications, Management and Cost Accounting, 8th edition, by Bhimani and co-authors brings together techniques, concepts and practices in a highly readable way. MyLab Accounting available.

This bestseller text offers clear, simple-to-understand and comprehensive coverage of management and cost accounting. Management and Cost Accounting, 8th edition brings together techniques, concepts and practices in a way that is readable and with language that is easy to follow. Keeping its international focus, the text includes a wealth of case studies featuring companies from around the world, and offers up-to-date coverage of the most contemporary aspects affecting management accounting today, such as a greater emphasis on sustainability, as well as AI, automation and other technologies.

Packed with illustrations, examples and real-life applications, this book will help you learn about the aspects of management accounting that are essential in your study and your future performance in the workplace.

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• Up-to-date coverage of the impact of digitalisation and application of new technologies , including blockchain systems, artificial intelligence and more.
• Sustainability practices are now given more space with new examples covering topics such as renewable energy and initiatives to lessen environmental impact.
• A wealth of resources, including professional accountancy practice exercises, and end-of-chapter questions, provide opportunities to learn and develop exam ability.
• A range of new real-life applications in 'Concepts in Action' boxes show how managers use accounting techniques in the business world.

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  Autorentext

Alnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting and Director of the South Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Charles T. Horngren was the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Accounting at Stanford University.

Srikant M. Datar is the Dean of Harvard Business School.

Madhav V. Rajan is the Dean of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Inhalt

Part 1 Management and cost accounting fundamentals

1. The manager and management accounting
2. An introduction to cost terms and purposes
3. Job costing
4. Process costing
5. Cost allocation
6. Cost allocation: joint-cost situations

7. Income effects of alternative stock-costing methods
   Part 2 Accounting information for decision making

8. Costvolumeprofit analysis
9. Determining how costs behave
10. Relevant information for decision making
11. Activity-based costing
12. Pricing issues and customer profitability analysis

13. Capital investment decisions
    Part 3 Planning and budgetary control systems

14. Motivation, budgets and responsibility accounting
15. Flexible budgets, variances and management control: I
16. Flexible budgets, variances and management control: II

17. Measuring yield, mix and quantity effects
    Part 4 Management control systems

18. Control systems and transfer pricing

19. Control systems and performance measurement
    Part 5 Strategy, quality, time and emerging issues

20. Strategy, the balanced scorecard and quality
21. Accounting, time and efficiency
22. Emerging issues: digitalisation and sustainability