This must-have reference covers all of the major areas of cost accounting and analysis including product costing, relevant costs, cost-volume analysis, performance evaluation, transfer pricing, and capital budgeting.

• Includes methods of reorganizing, classifying, allocating, aggregating, and reporting actual costs and comparing them with standard costs.
• Equips experienced cost accountants with a reference tool and students with a thorough textbook.
• Provides numerous examples, succinct language, chapter review, glossary, and appendices.
• Includes an abundance of exercises, many of which are based on exam questions from the CPA and CMA exams.

Table of Contents

• Preface.
• About the Authors.
• Chapter 1. The Changing role of the CFO: From Accounting to Accountable.
• Part One. Funding.
• Chapter 2. Capital Structure Decisions.
• Chapter 3. Types of Debt Financing.
• Chapter 4. Equity Funding.
• Chapter 5. Structured Financing: Asset
• Securitization and Structured Notes.
• Part Two. Strategy, Taxes, and risk Management.
• Chapter 6. Strategy and Financial Planning.
• Chapter 7. Basics of Corporate Taxes and Tax risk Management.
• Chapter 8. Corporate Risk Management.
• Part Three. Performance Evaluation.
  Chapter 9. Financial Ratio Analysis.
• Chapter 10. Cash Flow Analysis.
• Chapter 11. Decentralized Operations and responsibility Accounting.
• Chapter 12. Responsibility Center Performance Evaluation.
• Chapter 13. Transfer Pricing.
  Part Four. Asset Management.
• Chapter 14. Capital Budgeting and Cash Flow Analysis.
• Chapter 15. Capital Budgeting Techniques.
• Chapter 16. Capital Budgeting and Risk.
• Chapter 17. Leasing.
• Chapter 18. Managing Short-Term Assets.
  Part Five. Cost and Managerial Accounting.
• Chapter 19. Classifying Costs.
• Chapter 20. Costing and Control of Materials, Labor, and Factory Overhead.
• Chapter 21. Job Order and Process Costing.
• Chapter 22. Joint Product and Byproduct Costing.
• Chapter 23. Master Budget.
• Chapter 24. Standard Costing.
• Chapter 25. Direct and Absorption Costing.
• Index.