Cost Accounting and Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know

• Comes with Chapter Summaries and Solutions to Practice Exercises
• Fundamentals and important principles included
• Practical approach for application by business professionals
• Solved examples with real-life business scenarios

A simple guide to making managerial decisions based on cost data.

Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition is an introduction to cost accounting for engineers and scientists moving into management roles. It is structured in a compact and easy-to-understand format so that beginners to the subject will gain an understanding of cost accounting and managerial accounting.

The book covers:

• An introduction to cost accounting
• Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) analysis
• Activity based Costing
• Cost management
• Other aspects of cost allocation and control
• Decision-making using relevant information

About the Series
The Self-Learning Management series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series has management books, finance and accounting books, and strategy and marketing books designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret.

Kalpesh Ashar is a management consultant and corporate trainer holding an MBA (Dean’s Award Winner) from SPJIMR, one of Asia’s top business schools, and an Engineering degree with honors in Electronics. He has over 21 years of experience in large organizations and start-ups in Asia, USA, and Europe.
Kalpesh has worked in several project management roles, like Senior Project Manager, Delivery Manager, and Program Manager. He is passionate about writing on management subjects. His techno-business background gives him a unique position to write on management topics that are easy to understand for non-MBA graduates. His books are authored in a simple to understand manner without unnecessary use of management jargons.

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