Includes glossary and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction to cost management
Chapter 2. Basic cost management concepts
Chapter 3. Cost behavior and forecasting
Chapter 4. Activity-based costing
Chapter 5. Product and service costing: Job-order system
Chapter 6. Process costing
Chapter 7. Allocating costs of support departments and joint products
Chapter 8. Budgeting for planning and control
Chapter 9. Standard costing: A functional-based control approach
Chapter 10. Decentralization: Responsibility accounting, performance evaluation, and transfer pricing
Chapter 11. Strategic cost management
Chapter 12. Activity-based management
Chapter 13. Strategic-based control systems and the balanced scorecard
Chapter 14. Quality and environmental cost management
Chapter 15. Lean accounting and productivity measurement
Chapter 16. Cost-volume-profit analysis
Chapter 17. Activity resource usage model and tactical decision making
Chapter 18. Pricing and profitability analysis
Chapter 19. Capital investment
Chapter 20. Inventory management: Economic, order quantity, JIT, and the theory of constraints
Chapter 21. International Issues in Cost Management.