Description
Ken Boyd is Co-Founder of Accountinged.com and owns St. Louis Test Preparation. He tutors and coaches people on the principles of accounting and prepares them for challenging accounting licensing exams by making accounting interesting and fun. Introduction 1 Part 1: Understanding the Fundamentals of Costs 5 Chapter 1: So You Want to Know about Cost Accounting 7 Chapter 2: Brushing Up on Cost Accounting Basics 17 Chapter 3: Using Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis to Plan Your Business Results 31 Chapter 4: Estimating Costs with Job Costing 53 Chapter 5: More Activity, More Cost: Activity-Based Costing 75 Part 2: Planning and Control 99 Chapter 6: What’s the Plan, Stan? Budgeting for a Better Bottom Line 101 Chapter 7: Constant Change: Variance Analysis 125 Chapter 8: Focusing on Overhead Costs 149 Chapter 9: What’s on the Shelf? Inventory Costing 163 Part 3: Making Decisions 185 Chapter 10: Cost Drivers and Cost Estimation Methods 187 Chapter 11: Making Smart Business Decisions with Relevant Information 203 Chapter 12: Making Smart Pricing Decisions: Figuring Total Costs 227 Part 4: Allocating Costs and Resources 249 Chapter 13: Analysis Methods to Improve Profitability 251 Chapter 14: Behind the Scenes: Accounting for Support Costs and Common Costs 271 Chapter 15: Joint Costs, Separable Costs, and Using Up the Leftovers 295 Chapter 16: Tracing Similar Products with Process Costing 313 Part 5: Considering Quality Issues 335 Chapter 17: What a Waste! Getting the Most from Spoilage, Scrap, and Reworked Products 337 Chapter 18: Making Smart Ordering Decisions 359 Chapter 19: Quality: Building a Better Mousetrap 381 Part 6: The Part of Tens 401 Chapter 20: Ten Common Costing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them 403 Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Increase Profits Using Costing 409 Index 415
