TY - BOOK AU - Horngren, Charles T. AU - Foster, George. AU - Datar, Srikant M. TI - Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis SN - 0131847147 AV - HF5687.C8 .H59 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New Jersey PB - Prentice Hall KW - Cost Accounting N1 - The accountant's role in the organization -- An introduction to cost terms and purposes -- Cost-volume-profit relationships -- Costing systems and activity-based costing -- Master budget and responsibility control -- Flexible budgets, variance, and management control -- Income effects of alternative inventory-costing methods -- Determining how costs behave -- Relevant revenues, relevant costs, and the decision process -- Pricing decisions, product profitability decisions, and cost management -- Cost allocation -- Revenues, revenue variances, and customer profitability analysis -- Process costing systems -- Spoilage, reworked units, and scrap -- Cost management: Quality, time, and the theory of constraints -- Operation costing, just-in-time systems, and back flush costing -- Inventory management and just-in-time --Capital budgeting and cost analysis -- Measuring input mix, yield, and productivity -- Control systems, decentralization, transfer pricing, and multinational considerations -- Systems choice: Performance measurement and compensation ER -