product title: Management and Cost Accounting, 8th edition

Familiarise your students with the real business world and the principal management accounting techniques.

Management and Cost Accounting is the ideal textbook to support your teaching as you introduce your students to the concepts and practices of the discipline.

This latest edition retains its international focus with its wealth of case studies presenting companies from around the world, and a range of examples and real-life applications to support your students' learning.

With updated content covering aspects such as the application of new technologies and a fresh look at sustainability practices, this text will offer your students the resources they need for their course and future career.

Format types

MyLab with eText = Access to the blended learning platform, merging digital content with complementary homework, tutorials, and assessments. Includes the accompanying eText.

eTextbook = A standalone digital replacement of a print textbook. You have 3 access durations to choose from to best suit your course. (180 day/12 month/5 years). Does not include access to the MyLab platform.

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MyLab is an innovative online learning platform to support you in your educational journey. It offers a range of interactive and personalized resources tailored to various subjects, helping you to better understand and retain course material. 

Key benefits of MyLab include immediate feedback on assignments and quizzes, allowing you to learn from your mistakes in real-time. Additionally, the platform provides a wealth of practice exercises, tutorials, and multimedia resources that cater to different learning styles.

New and updated features of this title

Rich chapter-by-chapter features help your students develop understanding and practise essential management accounting techniques

• Professional accountancy practice exercises and end-of-chapter questions provide opportunities to reinforce learning and develop exam ability.
• Harvard Business School and other cutting-edge case studies illustrate how management accounting is deployed in enterprises across locations and situations

New content interspersed throughout the book lays emphasis on the most recent developments regarding environmental sustainability.

• Sustainability practices are now given more space with new examples, covering topics such as renewable energy and the significance of organisations' initiatives to improve sustainability and lessen environmental impact.

The introduction of several new boxes shows the application of concepts in the real business world.

• A range of new real-life applications in the Concepts in Action boxes shows how managers use essential accounting techniques in the business world.

Table of contents

• Part 1 Management and cost accounting fundamentals
• The manager and management accounting
• An introduction to cost terms and purposes
• Job costing
• Process costing
• Cost allocation
• Cost allocation: joint-cost situations
• Income effects of alternative stock-costing methods
• Part 1 Case study problems
• Part 2 Accounting information for decision making
• Cost–volume–profit analysis
• Determining how costs behave
• Relevant information for decision making
• Activity-based costing
• Pricing issues and customer profitability analysis
• Capital investment decisions
• Part 2 Case study problems
• Part 3 Planning and budgetary control systems
• Motivation, budgets and responsibility accounting
• Flexible budgets, variances and management control: I
• Flexible budgets, variances and management control: II
• Measuring yield, mix and quantity effects
• Part 3 Case study problems
• Part 4 Management control systems and performance issues
• Control systems and transfer pricing
• Control systems and performance measurement
• Part 4 Case study problems
• Part 5 Strategy, quality, time and emerging issues
• Strategy, the balanced scorecard and quality
• Accounting, time and efficiency
• Emerging issues: digitalisation and sustainability
• Part 5 Case study problems
• Appendix A: Solutions to selected exercises
• Glossary