Management Accounting

In the present complex business world, management accounting has become an integral part and useful tool of the management system. In fact, management accounting represents a happy blending of two older professions of ‘Management’ and ‘Accounting’, which leads to the success of a business concern through accounting control and managerial efficiency. 

Salient features of the Management Accounting Book:

• The subject-matter has been arranged and systematised strictly according to course prescribed.
• The language and style of presentation are very simple and the subject-matter has been divided into various headings and sub-headings so as to give a flow in studying this numerical subject.
• Both theoretical and numerical aspects of the subject have been given due importance.
• The numerical illustrations have been carefully graded with supporting theoretical background. At many places, explanatory notes have also been given to clarify the working of the solution.
• Numerical illustrations and questions have been arranged in a systematic and scientific sequence from simple to complex.
• Illustrations and questions both have been arranged in an identical sequence so that students can easily solve the questions after understanding the illustration in the same order.
• In the selection of illustrations and questions priority has been given to university examination papers so that students may make practice according to that standard.
• Short answer and objective type questions (Theoretical & Numerical) have also been incorporated according to new examination pattern of different universities.
• Standard but simple formulae have been used in different chapters and at the end of each chapter, all formulae relevant to that chapter have been given at one place.

Management Accounting Book Contents

1.  Management Accounting: Nature, Scope and Significance
2. Cost Control and Cost Reduction
3. Cost Management
4. Budgeting and Budgetary Control
5. Zero Base Budget
6. Programme and Performance Budgeting
7. Standard Costing
8. Variance Analysis: Material and Labour Variance
9. Absorption and Marginal (Variable) Costing
10. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis (Break-Even Analysis)
11. Responsibility Accounting