Cost Accounting Made Simple : Cost Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less

Find all of the following, explained in plain-English: Fixed costs, variable costs, and how to use them to perform cost-volume-profit analysis for a business Product costs, period costs, and why the distinction is important Direct costs, indirect costs, and how to assign each of them to cost objects for better decision-making How to use activity-based costing to allocate overhead costs Job order costing and process costing How to budget for a business and how to use variance analysis to identify potential problems when results vary from budgeted amounts