CONTENTS
Preface, guided tour and acknowledgements = xv
PART Ⅰ Management and cost accounting fundamentals
Chapter 1 The accountant's role in the organisation = 4
The major purposes of accounting systems = 5
Modern management accounting = 7
Elements of management control = 9
Costs, benefits and context = 12
Themes in the design of management accounting systems = 14
Concepts in action : The finance group at Cummins Engine reinvents itself = 15
Surveys of company practice : Management accounting information needs = 17
Management accounting change = 17
Summary = 20
Appendix : Professional ethics = 21
Key terms = 23
Assessment material = 24
Chapter 2 An Introduction to cost terms and purposes = 32
Costs in general = 33
Direct costs and indirect costs = 34
Cost drivers and cost management = 35
Two types of cost behaviour pattern : variable costs and fixed costs = 36
Surveys of company practice : Purposes for distinguishing between variable costs and fixed costs = 39
Total costs and unit costs = 40
Financial statements and cost terminology = 42
Service-sector companies = 43
Merchandising- and manufacturing-sector companies = 43
Manufacturing costs = 46
Concepts in action : Harley-Davidson eliminates the direct manufacturing labour cost category = 48
The many meanings of product costs = 49
Classifications of costs = 49
Summary = 50
Key terms = 51
Assessment material = 52
Chapter 3 Job-costing systems = 61
The building block concept of costing systems = 62
Job-costing and process-costing systems = 62
Job costing in service organisations using actual costing = 64
Normal costing = 66
Job costing in manufacturing = 68
Surveys of company practice : Cost-allocation bases used for manufacturing overhead = 71
An illustration of a job-costing system in manufacturing = 72
Budgeted indirect costs and end-of-period adjustments = 77
Management control and technology = 81
Summary = 81
Key terms = 82
Assessment material = 83
Chapter 4 Process-costing systems = 92
Illustrating process costing = 93
Case 1 : Process costing with no opening or closing work-in-progress stock = 94
Case 2 : Process costing with no opening but a closing work-in-progress stock = 95
Case 3 : Process costing with both some opening and some closing work-in-progress stock = 99
Weighted-average method = 100
First-in, first-out method = 103
Comparison of weighted-average and FIFO methods = 106
Standard-costing method of process costing = 108
Transferred-in costs in process costing = 112
Concepts in action : Process costing in the ceramics industry = 113
Hybrid-costing systems = 118
Summary = 119
Appendix : Operation costing = 120
Key terms = 122
Assessment material = 123
Chapter 5 Cost allocation = 130
The terminology of cost allocation = 131
Purposes of cost allocation = 131
Cost-benefit issues and other contextual factors = 133
Cost allocation and costing systems = 134
Indirect cost pools and cost allocation = 135
Allocating costs from one department to another = 137
Allocating costs of support departments = 141
Support department cost-allocation methods = 141
Allocating common costs = 147
Cost allocation bases and cost hierarchies = 149
Surveys of company practice : Is the product-costing system broken? = 151
Summary = 151
Key terms = 152
Assessment material = 153
Chapter 6 Cost allocation : joint-cost situations = 163
Meaning of joint products and by-products terms = 164
Why allocate joint costs? = 165
Approaches to allocating joint costs = 166
Concepts in action : Chicken processing : costing on the disassembly line = 174
No allocation of joint costs = 174
Irrelevance of joint costs for decision making = 175
Accounting for by-products = 177
Summary = 180
Key terms = 180
Assessment material = 181
Chapter 7 Income effects of alternative stock-costing methods = 190
Part one : Stock-costing methods = 191
Variable costing and absorption costing = 191
Comparison of variable costing and absorption costing = 195
Capsule comparison of stock-costing methods = 200
Performance measures and absorption costing = 202
Surveys of company practice : Company usage of variable costing = 203
Part two : Denominator-level concepts and absorption costing = 204
Alternative denominator-level concepts = 204
Effect on financial statements = 205
Summary = 207
Appendix : Breakeven points in variable and absorption costing = 208
Key terms = 209
Assessment material = 210
Part Ⅰ Case study problems = 216
101 The European Savings Bank = 216
102 The ethical dilemma at Northlake = 218
103 Electronic Boards plc = 220
PART Ⅱ Accounting information for decision making
Chapter 8 Cost-volume-profit relationships = 226
Revenue drivers and cost drivers = 227
Terminology and abbreviations = 227
CVP assumptions = 228
The breakeven point = 229
The PV graph = 232
Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty = 233
Cost planning and CVP = 234
Effects of revenue mix on profit = 236
Role of income taxes = 237
Not-for-profit institutions and CVP = 238
Concepts in action : Influencing cost structures to manage the risk-return trade-off = 239
Contribution margin and gross margin = 240
Summary = 241
Appendix : Decision models and uncertainty = 242
Key terms = 245
Assessment material = 246
Chapter 9 Determining how costs behave = 254
General issues in estimating cost functions = 255
The cause-and-effect criterion in choosing cost drivers = 258
Cost estimation approaches = 259
Quantitative analyses of cost relationships = 260
Steps in estimating a cost function = 261
Evaluating and choosing cost drivers = 266
Cost drivers and activity-based costing = 268
Concepts in action : Activity-based costing and cost estimation = 268
Non-linearity and cost functions = 269
Learning curves and non-linear cost functions = 270
Summary = 275
Appendix : Regression analysis = 276
Key terms = 284
Assessment material = 285
Chapter 10 Revenues, costs and the decision process = 292
Information and the decision process = 293
The meaning of relevance = 294
An illustration of relevance : choosing output levels = 296
Outsourcing and make-or-buy decisions = 299
Opportunity costs, outsourcing and capacity constraints = 302
Product-mix decisions under capacity constraints = 306
Customer profitability and relevant costs = 307
Irrelevance of past costs and equipment-replacement decisions = 310
Summary = 312
Appendix : Linear programming = 313
Key terms = 316
Assessment material = 317
Chapter 11 Activity-based costing = 331
Undercosting and overcosting = 332
Costing system at Plastim Limited = 333
Refining a costing system = 336
Activity-based costing systems = 336
Implementing ABC at Plastim Limited = 340
Comparing alternative costing systems = 345
Using ABC systems for cost and profit management = 345
ABC and department-costing systems = 348
Implementing ABC systems = 348
Concepts in action : Banks end the 'free lunch' for many services = 349
Surveys of company practice : Growing interest in activity-based costing = 351
Concepts in action : Banking on ABC and ABM information = 351
ABC and the organisational context = 352
Concepts in action : Activity-based costing at Wavin = 355
Summary = 356
Key terms = 357
Assessment material = 358
Chapter 12 Pricing decisions and profitability analysis = 365
Major influences on pricing = 366
Product-cost categories and time horizon = 367
Costing and pricing for the short run = 367
Costing and pricing for the long run = 369
Target costing for target pricing = 372
Achieving the target cost per unit for Provalue = 376
Concepts in action : Achieving target costs using activity-based management at Carrier Ltd = 379
Cost-plus pricing = 379
Considerations other than costs in pricing decisions = 382
Life-cycle product budgeting and costing = 383
Customer-profitability analysis = 385
Customer revenues = 386
Customer costs = 386
Surveys of company practice : Customer-profitability analysis attracts increasing attention = 389
Customer-profitability profiles = 389
Summary = 392
Key terms = 393
Assessment material = 394
Chapter 13 Capital Investment decisions = 402
Two focuses of cost analysis = 403
Stages of capital budgeting = 404
Discounted cash-flow methods = 406
Sensitivity analysis = 410
Relevant cash flows in discounted cash-flow analysis = 411
Payback method = 414
Accounting rate-of-return method = 416
Surveys of company practice : International comparison of capital-budgeting methods = 417
Complexities in capital-budgeting applications = 418
Managing the project = 420
Income tax factors = 421
Capital budgeting and inflation = 422
Project risk and required rate of return = 424
Capital rationing and the net present-value decision rule = 425
Surveys of company practice : Risk adjustment methods in capital budgeting = 426
Choosing between the net present-value and the internal rate-of-return decision approaches = 427
Summary = 428
Key terms = 430
Assessment material = 431
Part Ⅱ Case study problems = 442
201 Permaclean Products plc = 442
202 Central Scotland Processors = 444
203 Tankmaster Manufacturing Company = 447
204 Onsale, Inc. = 449
205 Caswell Bay Ltd = 460
206 Torquemada PLC = 462
PART Ⅲ Planning and budgetary control systems
Chapter 14 Motivation, budgets and responsibility accounting = 468
Major features of budgets = 469
Effects of budgetary control = 470
Types of budget = 474
Computer-based financial planning models = 484
Concepts in action : Using Web technology to fast-track the budgeting process = 485
Kaizen budgeting = 486
Activity-based budgeting = 486
Budgeting and responsibility accounting = 488
Responsibility and controllability = 489
Budgeting : a discipline in transition = 490
Summary = 491
Appendix : The cash budget = 492
Key terms = 497
Assessment material = 498
Chapter 15 Flexible budgets, variances and management control : Ⅰ = 506
Static budgets and flexible budgets = 507
Static-budget variances = 508
Steps in developing a flexible budget = 509
Flexible-budget variances and sales-volume variances = 510
Price variances and efficiency variances for inputs = 512
Performance measurement using variances = 518
Impact of stocks = 521
Flexible budgeting and activity-based costing = 521
An illustration of journal entries using standard costs = 523
Benchmarking and variance analysis = 525
Summary = 526
Key terms = 527
Assessment material = 528
Chapter 16 Flexible budgets, variances and management control : Ⅱ = 539
Planning of variable-and fixed-overhead costs = 540
Developing budgeted variable-overhead rates = 541
Variable-overhead cost variances = 541
Developing budgeted fixed-overhead rates = 546
Fixed-overhead cost variances = 547
Production-volume variance = 548
Integrated analysis of overhead cost variances = 550
Surveys of company practice : Variance analysis and control decisions = 551
Different purposes of manufacturing overhead cost analysis = 551
Journal entries for overhead costs and variances = 553
Financial and non-financial performance measures = 555
Actual, normal and standard costing = 555
Activity-based costing and variance analysis = 558
Summary = 562
Appendix : Engineered, discretionary and infrastructure costs = 563
Key terms = 566
Assessment material = 567
Chapter 17 Measuring yield, mix and quantity effects = 577
Input variances = 578
Direct materials yield and mix variances = 578
Direct manufacturing labour yield and mix variances = 583
Revenue and sales variances = 586
Variance analysis for multiple products = 587
Summary = 593
Key terms = 594
Assessment material = 595
Part Ⅲ Case study problems = 600
301 Zeros plc = 600
302 Instrumental Ltd = 602
303 Fiddler Ltd = 604
Part Ⅳ Management control systems and performance issues
Chapter 18 Control systems and transfer pricing = 610
Management control systems = 611
Evaluating management control systems = 612
Organisational structure and decentralisation = 612
Choices about responsibility centres = 615
Transfer pricing = 616
An illustration of transfer pricing = 617
Market-based transfer prices = 620
Cost-based transfer prices = 621
Negotiated transfer prices = 624
Surveys of company practice : Domestic tranfer-pricing pratices in the UK = 624
A general guideline for transfer-pricing situations = 625
Transfer pricing and tax considerations = 626
Summary = 627
Key terms = 628
Assessment material = 629
Chapter 19 Control systems and performance measurement = 636
Financial and non-financial performance measures = 637
Designing an accounting-based performance measure = 638
Different performance measures = 638
Concepts in action : Equifax, AT&T and EVA = 644
Alternative definitions of investment = 645
Alternative performance measures = 646
Choosing targeted levels of performance and timing of feedback = 648
Distinction between managers and organisational units = 649
Performance measures at the individual activity level = 652
Environmental and ethical responsibilities = 653
Summary = 653
Key terms = 654
Assessment material = 655
Part Ⅳ Case study problems = 663
401 BBR plc = 663
402 Star plc = 667
403 Cresta Plating Company Ltd = 669
Part Ⅴ Quality, time and the strategic management of costs
Chapter 20 Quality and throughput concerns in managing costs = 678
Quality as a competitive weapon = 679
Two aspects of quality = 679
Costs of quality = 680
Methods used to identify quality problems = 683
Relevant costs and benefits of quality improvement = 685
Concepts in action : Marconi's pursuit of quality = 687
Concepts in action : Putting the customer first = 689
Non-financial measures of quality and customer satisfaction = 690
Evaluating quality performance = 691
Theory of constraints and throughput accounting = 691
Concepts in action : Throughput accounting at Allied-Signal, Skelmersdale, UK = 694
Summary = 695
Key terms = 696
Assessment material = 697
Chapter 21 Accounting for just-in-time systems = 705
Just-in-time systems = 706
Major features of JIT production systems = 706
Backflush costing = 710
Concepts in action : Implementing JIT at Andreas Stihl, KG = 711
Managing goods for sale in retail organisations = 718
Challenges in estimating stock-related costs and their effects = 724
Just-in-time purchasing = 725
Concepts in action : Porsche's just-in-time revival = 727
Stock costs and their management in manufacturing organisations = 730
Summary = 731
Key terms = 732
Assessment material = 733
Chapter 22 Strategic management accounting = 742
Conceptions of strategy = 743
What is strategic management accounting? = 745
The balanced scorecard = 747
Evaluating the success of a strategy = 753
The tableau de bord = 755
Surveys of company practice : Management accountants' involvement in strategic planning activities = 757
The strategic management accounting potential = 760
Summary = 761
Key terms = 762
Assessment material = 763
Part Ⅴ Case study problems = 769
501 Northern Chemicals = 769
502 General Computers plc = 774
503 Sothebys.com = 776
504 ACE Company = 794
505 Component Technologies International Ltd = 796
Appendix A : Solutions to selected exercises = 801
Appendix B : Notes on compound interest and interest tables = 876
Bibliography = 884
Glossary = 891
Index = 905