Cost Accounting Made Simple: Cost Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less (Financial Topics in 100 Pages or Less) - Softcover

Piper, Mike

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Synopsis

Find all of the following, explained in plain-English:

  • Fixed costs, variable costs, and how to use them to perform cost-volume-profit analysis for a business
  • Product costs, period costs, and why the distinction is important
  • Direct costs, indirect costs, and how to assign each of them to cost objects for better decision-making
  • How to use activity-based costing to allocate overhead costs
  • Job order costing and process costing
  • How to budget for a business and how to use variance analysis to identify potential problems when results vary from budgeted amounts

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