The best in-depth introduction to management accounting on the market today. Introduction: The Role and History and Direction of Management Accounting, Cost Accumulation and Product Costing, Basic Cost Concepts, Activity Cost Behavior, Activity-Based Costing, Job-Order Costing, Process Costing, Support Department Cost Allocation, Planning and Control, Budgeting for Planning and Control, Standard Costing: A Managerial Control Tool, Activity-Based Management, Quality Costs and Productivity: Measurement and Reporting and Control, Decentralization: Responsibility Accounting and Performance Evaluation and Transfer Pricing, International Issues in Management Accounting, Managerial Decision Making, Variable Costing and Segmental Reporting: Traditional and ABC Approaches, Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis: A Managerial Planning Tool, Tactical Decision Making: Relevant Costing and the Activity Resource Usage Model and Pricing, Capital Investment Decisions, Inventory Management.