Introduce your students to the dynamic, exciting nature of cost management as this edition demonstrates how today's conditions consistently require change in cost management systems. Hansen/Mowen/Guan's COST MANAGEMENT: ACCOUNTING AND CONTROL, 6e, International Edition, first covers functional-based cost and control and then activity-based cost systems, giving students the understanding and skills to manage any cost management system. This edition's expansive coverage and consistent attention to technical detail provides a thorough, well-researched foundation for learning. It addresses the most recent influential topics and emerging processes affecting the discipline, including a new chapter on lean accounting and a focus on technology tools that positively impact internal costing practices.

Table of Contents

Part I: FOUNDATION CONCEPTS. 1. Introduction to Cost Management. 2. Basic Cost Management Concepts. 3. Cost Behavior. 4. Activity-Based Costing. Part II: FUNDAMENTAL COSTING AND CONTROL. 5. Product and Service Costing: Job-Order System. 6. Product and Service Costing: A Process Systems Approach. 7. Allocating Costs of Support Departments and Joint Products. 8. Budgeting for Planning and Control. 9. Standard Costing: A Functional-Based Control Approach. 10. Decentralization: Responsibility Accounting, Performance Evaluation, and Transfer Pricing. Part III: ADVANCED COSTING AND CONTROL. 11. Strategic Cost Management. 12. Activity-Based Management. 13. The Balanced Scorecard: Strategic-Based Control. 14. Quality and Environmental Costs. 15. Productivity Measurement and Control. 16. Lean Accounting. Part IV: DECISION MAKING. 17. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis. 18. Activity Resource Usage Model and Tactical Decision Making. 19. Pricing and Profitability Analysis. 20. Capital Investment. 21. Inventory Management: Economic Order Quantity, JIT, and the Theory of Constraints.