Cost Accounting or Essentials of Economics

Cost Accounting: Foundations and Evolutions

Author: Michael R Kinney

Choose the most practical, real-world oriented approach to cost accounting concepts and procedures with Kinney/Raiborn's COST ACCOUNTING: FOUNDATIONS AND EVOLUTIONS, Seventh Edition. This reader- friendly text blends proven, traditional methods of cost accounting with today's most innovative topics to engage and challenge your students. New "Potential Ethical Issues" sections emphasize the areas of growing importance in business today. COST ACCOUNTING: FOUNDATIONS AND EVOLUTIONS, Seventh Edition's streamlined framework includes numerous actual company examples and current visual illustrations to reinforce and clarify cost management techniques. Focus companies now integrated within the body of the text provide a smooth read. The book's logically sequenced, visual presentation encourages students to think beyond the numbers to critically examine today's business decisions. Expanded exercises and problems now provide a greater variety of practice, whiletheComprehe nsive Review Module in each chapter helps students review concepts. Keep cost accounting understandable and practical for your students with the latest edition of Kinney/Raiborn's COST ACCOUNTING: FOUNDATIONS AND EVOLUTIONS, Seventh Edition.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Cost Accounting. 2. Cost Terminology and Cost Behaviors. 3. Predetermined Overhead Rates, Flexible Budgets, and Absorption/Variable Costing. 4. Activity-Based Management and Activity-Based Costing. 5. Job Order Costing. 6. Process Costing. 7. Standard Costing and Variance Analysis. 8. The Master Budget. 9. Break-Even Point and Cost-Volume Profit Analysis. 10. Relevant Information for Decision Making. 11. Allocation of Joint Costs and Accounting for By-Products. 12. Introduction to Cost Management Systems. 13. Responsibility Accounting and Transfer Pricing in Decentralized Organizations. 14. Performance Measurement, Balanced Scorecards, and Performance Rewards. 15. Capital Budgeting. 16. Managing Costs and Uncertainty. 17. Implementing Quality Concepts. 18. Inventory and Production Management. 19. Emerging Management Practices.

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Essentials of Economics

Author: N Gregory Mankiw

With an easy-to-understand writing style, ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMICS is the most popular and widely used economics textbook in college Economics classes. Author Greg Mankiw has created a textbook that's accessible to everyone, particularly students encountering economics for the first time—emphasizing real-life scenarios and engaging facts on the economy and its fundamental principles.

Table of Contents:

PART I. INTRODUCTION
1.Ten Principles of Economics
2.Thinking Like an Economist. Appendix: Graphing - A Brief Review
3.Interdependence and the Gains from Trade.
PART II. SUPPLY AND DEMAND I: HOW MARKETS WORK
4.The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
5.Elasticity and Its Application
6.Supply, Demand, and Government Policies.
PART III. SUPPLY AND DEMAND II: MARKETS AND WELFARE
7.Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets
8.Application: The Costs of Taxation
9.Application: International Trade.
PART IV. THE ECONOMICS OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR
10.Externalities
11.Public Goods and Common Resources.
PART V. FIRM BEHAVIOR AND THE ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY
12.The Costs of Production
13.Firms in Competitive Markets
14.Monopoly. Part VI. The Data of Macroeconomics
15.Measuring a NationЖs Income
16.Measuring the Cost of Living.
PART VII. THE REAL ECONOMY IN THE LONG RUN
17.Production a nd Growth
18.Saving, Investment, and the Financial System
19.Unemployment and Its Natural Rate.
PART VIII. MONEY AND PRICES IN THE LONG RUN
20.The Monetary System
21.Money Growth and Inflation.
PART IX. SHORT-RUN ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
22.Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
23.The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand.