Includes index.

Chapter 1 The Changing Role of Managerial Accounting in a Dynamic Business Environment --
Chapter 2 Basic Cost Management Concepts and Accounting for Mass Customization Operations --
Chapter 3 Product Costing and Cost Accumulation in a Batch Production Environment --
Chapter 4 Process Costing and Hybrid Product-Costing Systems --
Chapter 5 Activity-Based Costing and Management --
Chapter 6 Activity Analysis, Cost Behavior, and Cost Estimation --
Chapter 7 Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis --
Chapter 8 Absorption and Variable Costing --
Chapter 9 Profit Planning and Activity-Based Budgeting --
Chapter 10 Standard Costing, Operational Performance Measures and the Balanced Scorecard --
Chapter 11 Flexible Budgeting and the Management of Overhead and Support Activity Costs --
Chapter 12 Responsibility Accounting, Quality Control and Environmental Cost Management --
Chapter 13 Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing --
Chapter 14 Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits --
Chapter 15 Target Costing and Cost Analysis for Pricing Decisions --
Chapter 16 Capital Expenditure Decisions --
Chapter 17 Allocation of Support Activity Costs and Joint Costs

Focuses on teaching students to use accounting information to manage an organization. This title covers topics such as activity-based costing, target costing, the value chain, customer profitability analysis, and throughput costing. It also includes traditional topics such as job-order costing, budgeting and performance evaluation.