Fundamentals of cost accounting / William N. Lanen, Shannon W. Anderson, and Michael W. Maher.

Includes index.

Introduction and overview -- Cost accounting: information for decision making -- Cost concepts and behavior -- Cost analysis and estimation -- Fundamentals of cost-volume-profit analysis -- Fundamentals of cost analysis for decision making -- Cost estimation -- Cost management systems -- Fundamentals of product and service costing -- Job costing -- Process costing -- Activity-based costing -- Fundamentals of cost management -- Service department and joint cost allocation -- Management control systems -- Fundamentals of management control systems -- Planning and budgeting --Business unit performance measurement -- Transfer pricing -- Fundamentals of variance analysis -- Additional topics in variance analysis -- Performance measurement to support business strategy.

"We present the material from the perspective of both the preparer and the user of the information. We do this so that both accounting majors and those students planning other careers will appreciate the issues in preparing and using the information. The opening vignettes tie to one of the Business Application features in the chapter to highlight the relevance of cost accounting to today's business problems. All chapters end with Key Takeaways that summarize the core concepts of the chapter"-- Provided by publisher.