Cost Accounting, 5e

An indispensable text book for students in commerce and management streams

This book discusses various aspects of cost accounting – cost ascertainment, cost analysis and control, and managerial decision making – in a logical and comprehensive manner. With extensive theoretical inputs, large number of numerical illustrations, and rich pedagogy and exercises, it provides complete and up-to-date coverage on the subject. It will meet the requirements of the students of B Com, M Com, CA, ICWA, MBA and so on, for the course on cost accounting.

New in this edition:

• Thoroughly revised chapters – Cost: Concepts and Classification, Materials Control, Materials Costing, Activity-based Costing, Process Costing, Marginal (Variable) Costing, Alternative Choices Decisions, Standard Costing, Budgeting
• Additional topical coverage – Cost vs. Management Accounting, Capacity Costing
• Additional solved and unsolved problems throughout the text