TY - BOOK AU - Kinney, Michael R., AU - Raiborn, Cecily A., AU - Carter, William K., TI - Cost accounting / SN - 9781133689935 [newsprint] PY - 2012///. CY - Singapore : PB - Cengage Learning KW - Cost accounting. N1 - Contents: Chapter 1 Management, the controller, and cost accounting -- Chapter 2 Cost terminology and cost behaviors -- Chapter 3 Predetermiend overhead rates, flexible budgets, and absorption/variable costing -- Chapter 4 Materials: Controlling, costing, and planning -- Chapter 5 Inventory and production management -- Chapter 6 Factory overhead: Departmentalization -- Chapter 7 Job order costing -- Chapter 8 Activity-based management and activity-based costing -- Chapter 9 Process costing -- Chapter 10 Allocation of joint costs and accounting for by-product/scrap -- Chapter 11 Standard costing variance analysis; Adult N2 - "Cost accounting is a dynamic discipline constantly responding to the needs of managers in a highly competitive and global business world. Managers need cost accounting information to develop, implement, and evaluate strategy. Managers also need cost accounting measurements to determine product costs for internal management and external financial reporting. The eight edition of Cost Accounting: Foundations and Evaluations provides in-depth coverage of cost management concepts and procedures in a logically sequenced and student-friendly framework. This text encourages students to go beyond the numbers and think critically about business decisions." --Preface ER -