1. The role of accounting information in management decision making -- 2. The cost function -- 3. Cost-volume-profit analysis -- 4. Relevant costs for nonroutine operating decisions -- 5. Job costing -- 6. Process costing -- 7. Activity-based costing and management -- 8. Measuring and assigning support department costs -- 9. Joint product and by-product costing -- 10. Static and flexible budgets -- 11. Standard costs and variance analysis -- 12. Strategic investment decisions -- 13. Joint management of revenues and costs -- 14. Measuring and assigning costs for income statements -- 15. Performance evaluation and compensation -- 16. Strategic performance mesurement.