Cost accounting for dummies / Ken Boyd.

Includes index.

Understanding the fundamentals of costs -- Planning and control -- Making decisions -- Allocating costs resources -- Considering quality issues -- The part of tens -- Using cost-volume-profit analysis to plan your business results -- Estimating costs with job costing -- More activity, more cost: activity-based costing -- Planning and control -- What's the plan, stan? budgeting for a better bottom line -- Constant change: variance analysis -- Focusing on overhead costs -- What's on the shelf? inventory costing -- Making decisions -- Cost drivers and cost estimation methods -- Making smart business decisions with relevant information -- Making smart pricing decisions: figuring total costs -- Allocating cost and resources -- Analysis methods to improve profitability -- Behind the scenes: accounting for support costs and common costs -- Joint costs, separable costs, and using up the leftovers -- Tracing similar products with process costing -- Considering quality issues -- What a waste! getting the most from spoilage, scrap, and reworked products -- Making smart ordering decisions -- Quality: building a better mousetrap -- The part of tens -- The common costing mistakes and how to avoid them -- Ten ways to increase profits using costing.