The writers have combined their talents to produce a text unparalleled in terms of its case studies. European focus and questions on management and cost accounting. Preface and Guided Tour and Acknowledgements, Management and Cost Accounting Fundamentals, The Accountant's Role in the Organization, An Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes, Job-Costing Systems, Process-Costing Systems, Cost Allocation, Cost Allocation: Joint-Cost Situations, Income Effects of Alternative Stock-Costing Methods, Accounting Information for Decision Making, Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships, Determining How Costs Behave, Activity-Based Costing, Capital investment Decisions, Planning and Budgetary Control Systems, Flexible Budgets and Variances and Management Control, Measuring Yield and Mix and Quantity Effects, Management Control Systems and Performance Issues, Control Systems and Transfer Pricing, Control Systems and Performance Measurement, Emerging Management Accounting Issues, Quality and Throughput Issues in Managing Costs, Time and Strategy as Emerging Issues in Cost Management, Appendices, Bibliography, Glossary, Index.