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McGraw-Hill Fundamentals of Cost Accounting 2013 Edition by Michael Maher
Fundamentals of Cost Accounting provides a direct, realistic, and efficient way to learn cost accounting, integrated with new technology learning tools. Fundamentals is short (approximately 700 pages) making it easy to cover in one semester. The authors have kept the text concise by focusing on the key concepts students need to master. The Decision opening vignettes and Business Application boxes show realistic applications of these concepts throughout. All chapters conclude with a Debrief that links the topics in the chapter to the decision problem faced by the manager in the opening vignette. Comprehensive end-of-chapter material provides students with all the practice they need to fully learn each concept.McGraw-Hill Connect Accounting Plus provides students every advantage as they strive to understand the key concepts of cost accounting and its role in business. Connect Accounting Plus offers a complete digital solution with a robust online learning and homework management system, an integrated media-rich eBook, assignable end-of-chapter material, algorithmic functionality, and reporting capabilities.Contained within Connect Accounting is McGraw-Hill's adaptive learning system, LearnSmart, which is designed to help students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge for greater success. Table of contents :- Chapter 1: Cost Accounting: Information for Decision MakingChapter 2: Cost Concepts and BehaviorChapter 3: Fundamentals of Cost-Volume-Profit AnalysisChapter 4: Fundamentals of Cost Analysis for Decision MakingChapter 5: Cost EstimationChapter 6: Fundamentals of Product and Service CostingChapter 7: Job CostingChapter 8: Process CostingChapter 9: Activity-Based CostingChapter 10: Fundamentals of Cost ManagementChapter 11: Service Department and Joint Cost AllocationChapter 12: Fundamentals of Management Control SystemsChapter 13: Planning and BudgetingChapter 14: Business Unit Performance MeasurementChapter 15: Transfer PricingChapter 16: Fundamentals of Variance AnalysisChapter 17: Additional Topics in Variance AnalysisChapter 18: Performance Measurement to Support Business StrategyAppendix: Capital Investment Decisions: An Overview