Principles of Management Accounting: The Question Book
N. Wood, O. Skae
Description
Principles of Management Accounting: The Question Book
accompanies the Oxford University Press Southern Africa textbook Principles of Management Accounting: A South African Perspective
, offering additional questions on each of the topics covered in the textbook. The Question Book is aimed at second- or third-year students of Management Accounting at universities and universities of
technology. It comprises original questions which have been tried and tested as well as selected appropriate-level questions from the relevant CIMA and ACCA papers. Many of the questions are scenario-type questions; this teaches students to process larger amounts of information and separate relevant from irrelevant data.
Key features
- Short quiz questions to get students thinking about the topic discussed.
- Longer questions to test understanding
of the core concepts.
- A summary of key points acting as a quick revision of the chapter.
- At least one selected solution per chapter allowing students to monitor their progress.
- The full set of solutions to the questions in Principles of Management Accounting: The Question Book
is available on the OUPSA website.
Contents
1.
Introduction to management accounting
2.
Cost classification and behaviour
3.
Cost estimation
4.
Cost-volume-profit relationships
5.
Absorption versus variable costing
6.
Overhead allocation
7.
Job costing
9.
Joint and by-product costing
10.
Relevant costs for decision-making
11.
Decision-making under operational
constraints
12.
Budgets, planning and control
13.
Standard costing
14.
Performance management
15.
Transfer pricing
16.
Contemporary management accounting concepts
17.
Competitive advantage
Readership
Entry-level (second or third year) students of Management Accounting at universities.
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