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eBook for Management and Cost Accounting

Author(s): Colin Drury | Mike E Tayles

ISBN: 9789366600802

12th Edition

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The comprehensive text, Management and Cost Accounting,12e by Drury and Tayles, offers a rigorous yet practical introduction to management accounting, designed to equip students with both conceptual understanding and real-world application skills. It systematically guides learners from foundational principles to advanced strategic and digital developments shaping the modern accounting landscape.

Detailed examples explain management accounting theory and practice step by step.
Updated, timely Real World Views bring accounting theory to life and introduce students to practical applications.
Extensive end-of-chapter questions with varying difficulty-levels reinforce the material covered and prepare your students for professional exams.
Employability skills exercises in every chapter expand students practical IT and presentation skills for their future careers.
A new chapter on management accounting in the digital age including data analytics explains big data, AI, blockchain, robotic process automation and cryptocurrency.
Increased coverage of environmental management accounting and management control systems includes the changing landscape of the management accountants role.
Numerous new real-world views on topics such as passenger delays at airports, food pricing and AI for accounting show accounting in practice in recognizable companies featuring Amazon, Apple, Netflix and easyJet.

Part 1: Introduction to MCA
1. Introduction to MA
2. An introduction to cost terms and concepts
Part 2: Cost accumulation for inventory valuation and profit measurement
3. Cost assignment
4. Process costing
5. Joint and by-product costing
6. Income effects of alternative cost accumulation systems
Part 3: Information for decision-making
7. Cost-volume-profit analysis
8. Measuring relevant costs and revenues for decision-making
9. Pricing decisions and profitability analysis
10. Activity-based costing
11. Decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty
12. Capital investment decisions: appraisal methods
13. Capital investment decisions: the impact of capital rationing, taxation, inflation and risk
Part 4: Information for planning, control and performance measurement
14. Management control systems
15. The budgeting process
16. Standard costing and variance analysis 1
17. Standard costing and variance analysis 2: further aspects
18. Divisional financial performance
19. Transfer pricing in divisionalized companies
Part 5: Strategic performance and cost management for value creation; digitalization, sustainability and the future of management accounting
20. Strategic performance management
21. Strategic cost management and value creation
22. Management accounting – current technologies and data analytics
23. Sustainability and environmental management accounting
24. Overview and challenges for the future
Part 6: Addendum: The application of quantitative methods to management accounting
25. Cost estimation and cost behaviour
26. Quantitative models for the planning and control of inventories