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This book introduces, explains and demystifies essential ideas of cost accounting to those who do not have any financial background or training. Lucid and comprehensive, it delineates the cost application of business organizations and corporates and offers an overview of cost control and management in the global context.
The volume:
- Discusses fundamental concepts and the application of cost accounting and control;
- Contains effective tools for cost ascertainment, analysis, control, monitoring, and resource allocation;
- Surveys global corporate practices and recent trends in the domain of cost management and decision-making.
A guide to building cost proficiency and acumen, this book will be a useful resource for business managers and management students, as well as those who deal with cost or financial matters in their daily lives. It will be indispensable for executive and management development programmes (EDPs & MDPs). It is thoroughly updated to reflect the current global trends and real-world cases in the domain of costing, supplemented with a range of learning aids, including figures, tables, and illustrations.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART I: COST ALLOCATION; 1. Cost concepts and classification; 2. Activity-Based Costing; 3. Job Costing; 4. Process Costing; PART II: COST CONTROL; 5. Budgetary control; 6. Standard Costing; 7. Responsibility Accounting; PART III: COST DECISION-MAKING; 8. Marginal costing and managerial decision-making; 9. Target Costing
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sandeep Goel is a Senior Professor of Accounting and Finance, and Corporate Governance at Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon, India. He holds two doctorates, one in Finance; and another in Accounting from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. He completed his bachelor's with Hons. and master's degrees in Commerce with specialisation in Finance from Shri Ram College of Commerce, and the Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, respectively. He has three decades of industry and academic experience across various organisations and institutions of repute, including the Shri Ram Group, the University of Delhi and MDI Gurgaon. He sits as an Independent Director on the Board of Machino Plastics Ltd., Gurugram, a Suzuki JV. He is a Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Management, University of Lodz, Poland and Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management - IAE AIX-Marseille University, France. He is a Management Trainer and Consultant to Organisations like Maruti Suzuki, Canara Bank, JK Tyre, PFRDA, NPCI, IRS, ITS, FIA Business School (Brazil), Bata, Encore, Federal-Mogul Goetze (India) Ltd., SOS Village International, Cairns India, National Banking Institute (Nepal), Druk Holdings (Bhutan), UltraTech Cements, ONGC, and many more. He is a prolific writer and has authored more than 15 books, and published over 100 research articles and cases in national and international journals of repute. He has been conferred with Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2023-24, 2015-16 and Award for Excellence in Research, 2015-16 at MDI.
