Handbook of cost & management accounting / edited by Zahirul Hoque.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC Ch. 1. The role of cost and management accounting / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 2. An introduction to cost terminology, cost flows, and cost behaviour / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 3. Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 4. Budgeting process and decision making / Manzurul Alam --
Ch. 5. Control of operations through the application of standard costing and variance analysis / Zahirul Hoque and Mohamed AboElhamd Omran --
Ch. 6. Job order cost accounting systems / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 7. Process costing systems / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 8. Service department cost allocation / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 9. Activity-based costing : concepts, processes and issues / Maria Major and Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 10. Activity-based costing in a Portuguese telecommunication company / Maria Major --
Ch. 11. Theory and practice in pricing decisions / Carly Webster --
Ch. 12. Transfer pricing in decentralised organisations / Zahirul Hoque and Ali Rkein --
Ch. 13. Capital budgeting : theory and practice / Fadi Alkaraan and Trevor Hopper --
Ch. 14. The evolution of corporate investment decisions : a multidisciplinary perspective / Michael Dempsey --
Ch. 15. Corporate financial management : time to change the cost of capital paradigm? / Michael Dempsey --
Ch. 16. Ethical finance : an agenda for consolidation or for radical change? / Ratnam Alagiah, Zahirul Hoque and Michael Dempsey --
Ch. 17. Quality costing : concepts and processes / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 18. Value chain analysis and accounting / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 19. Supply chain and management accounting / Mathew Tsamenyi, John Cullen and Richard Chivaka --
Ch. 20. Environmental management accounting : an overview and application of the concept / Craig Deegan --
Ch. 21. Measuring divisional performance in the short-run / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 22. Multiple performance measures in the long-run : application of the balanced scorecard approach / Zahirul Hoque --
Ch. 23. The challenge of managing the human relations aspects of accounting control systems change : an Australian experience / Jodie Moll --
Ch. 24. Cost information and management systems in a public hospital / Carly Webster.

Summary:
"This handbook addresses both conventional and contemporary issues in cost and management accounting. All the chapters provide both retrospective and modern views and commentaries by knowledgeable scholars in the field, who are able to offer unique insights on the changing role of cost and management accounting in today's businesses. People without a background in cost and management accounting should find all of these chapters easily understandable." "Written primarily for practitioners such as professional accountants, management accountants, internal auditors, financial analysts, business managers, and chief executives, this handbook can also be used by students pursuing both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in accounting and MBAs."--BOOK JACKET.

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Tahur Ahmed