Principles of Cost Accounting--Free PDF Ebook Download

Free PDF Ebook Download Hardcover: 504 pages Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 014 edition (March 15, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0324374178 ISBN-13: 978-0324374179 Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.9 x 1 inches Review "The addition of Lean Manufacturing is a great idea! It will help reinforce and build upon the concepts introduced in 'JIT Materials Control.'" "I think this is an absolutely essential change, given the increasing use of lean manufacturing in the current business environment." --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. Product Description Discover how readable, real, and relevant cost accounting can be with PRINCIPLES OF COST ACCOUNTING, 14E. This edition packs the essentials you need to know for your future in a unique 10-chapter format that's well organized, practical, and concise. You gain a thorough understanding of cost concepts, cost behavior, and cost accounting techniques as they apply to manufacturing and service businesses. To ensure your understanding, the book introduces concepts in small, manageable sections that are immediately reinforced with proven questions, demonstration problems, practice exercises, and self-study quizzes. You master the fundamentals of job order costing and process costing before progressing to more advanced topics, such as budgeting, standard costing and variance analysis, costing for service businesses, and cost analysis for management decisions. Focus on the skills that will take you far in today's competitive job market as you learn how to accurately determine the costs of products and services and how to set effective selling prices. Learn the techniques to accurately measure the performance of managers within an organization and use accounting to motivate managers toward an organization's goals. Find the relevant approach you need with the real cost accounting skills that will take you far in business today with PRINCIPLES OF COST ACCOUNTING, 14E.