Accounting for management / Jawahar Lal

Part I : Financial Accounting
1. Financial and management accounting: An overview
2. Accounting postulates, concepts and principles
3. Accounting equation and transaction analysis
4. Accounting Mechanics-I: Journals
5. Cash book and subsidiary books
6. Accounting Mechanics-II: Ledger posting and trial Balance
7. Bank reconciliation statement
8. Errors and their rectification
9. Preparation of financial statements: Profit and loss account and balance sheet
10. Depreciation accounting
11. inventory valuation
12. Statement of changes in financial position (SCFP)
13. Cash flow statement
14. Financial statement analysis
Part II: cost and management accounting
15.Nature of cost accounting
16. Cost: Concepts and classification
17. Materials control
18. Labour costs accounting and control
19. overheads: distribution
20. Job, contract and batch costing
21. Process costing
22. Service costing
23. Marginal (Variable) costing
24. Alternative choices decisions
25. Standard costing
26.budgeting
27. Responsibility Accounting, divisional performance measurement and transfer pricing
28. Activity based costing (ABC)

Accounting for management discusses the concepts and principles of financial accounting, cost and management accounting for the purpose of preparing accounting statements and reports and their uses in planning,control and business decisions. It provides a comprehensive coverage of topics useful to business managers, management graduates and professionals. Written in a clear, concise and logical manner, the book focuses on how to use accounting information to measure and evaluate business performance and take business decisions.