Handbook of Cost Accounting

The definitive cost accounting guide! Provides authoritative answers to hundreds of questions on cost accounting in management planning and control...day-to-day executive decision making...external financial reporting...and much more! It interweaves discussion of the information needs of managers and investors witht he explanation of procedures used by accountants. The book contains 27 chapters, 13 of which treat three categories of accounting information: decising making, planning/control, and external reporting. Five chapters deal with topics in managerial decision making, while two treat planning and control.