Thursday, January 8, 2009

Rival States Rival Firms or Fundamentals of Cost Accounting

Rival States, Rival Firms: Competition for World Market Shares, Vol. 18

Author: John M M Stopford

In this work, Professors Stopford and Strange explore the mutual interdependence of states and firms. They show how global structural changes often impel governments to seek the cooperation of managers of multinational enterprises, but within the constraints of each country's economic resources, social structures and history. Using research into the experience of over fifty multinationals and one hundred investment projects in Brazil, Malaysia and Kenya, the authors develop a matrix of agendas. They present the impact on projects of the multiple factors affecting the bargaining relationships between the government and the foreign firm at different times and in a variety of economic sectors.



See also: Marketing Essentials Student Edition or Effective Teamwork

Fundamentals of Cost Accounting

Author: Michael W Maher

A direct, realistic, and efficient way to learn cost accounting. Fundamentals is short (736 pages) making it easy to cover in one semester. The authors have kept the text concise by focusing on the key concepts students need to master. Opening vignettes and In Action boxes show realistic applications of these concepts throughout. The Topic Tackler CD reinforces this realism with video clips of different businesses that use cost accounting. Comprehensive end-of-chapter problems plus Homework Manager provide students with all the practice they need to fully learn each concept.



Table of Contents:

Chapter One
Cost Accounting: Information for Decision Making

Chapter Two
Cost Concepts and Behavior

Chapter Three Fundamentals of Cost Analysis

Chapter Four Cost Estimation

Chapter Five Fundamentals of Product and Service Costing

Chapter Six
Job Costing

Chapter Seven Process Costing

Chapter Eight Activity-Based Costing

Chapter Nine Fundamentals of Cost Management

Chapter Ten
Service Department and Joint Cost Allocation

Chapter Eleven Fundamentals of Management Control Systems

Chapter Twelve Planning and Budgeting

Chapter Thirteen Business Unit Performance Measurement

Chapter Fourteen Transfer Pricing

Chapter Fifteen Performance Evaluation: Variances

Chapter Sixteen Nonfinancial and Multiple Measures of Performance Evaluation

Appendix: Capital Investment Decisions: An Overview

Glossary

Index

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