Intro
About This Book
Contents
List of Symbols
1: Introduction to Management Accounting
1.1 Management Accounting
1.1.1 The Accounting System
1.1.2 The Decision-Making Function of Management Accounting
1.1.3 The Behavioural Control Function of Management Accounting
1.1.4 Focus of This Text
1.2 Introduction to Management Accounting and Decision-Making
1.2.1 The Concepts of Costs and Revenues
1.2.2 Short-Term and Long-Term Decision-Making
Box 1.1 Decisions with Short-Term Effects
1.2.3 Orientation Towards Goods Consumption and Production

1.3 Guided Tour of This Text
1.3.1 Contents of the Text
1.3.2 Formal Structure of This Text
1.3.3 Use of the Text
1.4 Summary
1.5 Assessment Material
2: Accounting Information and Production Decisions
2.1 Basics
2.1.1 Preliminary Remarks and Assumptions
2.1.2 Absorption Costing
2.1.3 Contribution Margins, Profit Functions and Restriction Types
2.1.4 Basic Model of the 'Pure' Production Programme Decision
2.2 Production Programme Decisions in Different Scenarios
2.2.1 Initial Example
2.2.2 No Effective Multiple-Product Restriction

2.2.3 One Effective Multiple-Product Restriction
2.2.4 Several Effective Multiple-Product Restrictions
2.3 Opportunity Costs and Decision-Making
2.3.1 Conceptual Bases
2.3.2 Input-Related Opportunity Costs
2.3.3 Output-Related Optimal Costs
2.3.4 Output-Related Alternative Costs
2.4 Summary
2.5 Assessment Material
3: Accounting Information and Pricing Decisions
3.1 Costs as a Basis for Pricing Decisions
3.2 Price Limits
3.2.1 Overview
3.2.2 Short-Term Lowest-Price Limits

3.2.3 Short-Term Lowest-Price Limits with Potential Capacity Restrictions
3.2.4 Long-Term Lowest-Price Limits
3.2.5 Highest-Price Limits
3.3 Optimal Prices
3.3.1 The Basic Model
3.3.2 Optimal Prices in the Long Run
3.3.3 Dynamic Price Strategies
3.3.4 Interdependence Between Products
3.3.5 Competitive Reactions
3.4 Summary
3.5 Assessment Material
4: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships (Break-Even Analysis)
4.2.1 Introduction
4.2.2 Single-Product Break-Even Analysis

4.2.3 Safety Coefficient and Operating Leverage
4.2.4 Stochastic Break-Even Analysis: The Single-Product Case
4.2.5 Multi-Product Break-Even Analysis
4.2.6 Result
4.3 Summary
4.4 Assessment Material
5: Cost Management
5.1 Contents of Cost Management
5.2 Cost Management and Company Strategy
5.2.1 The Management Accounting System and Company Strategy
5.2.2 Value Chain Analysis
5.2.3 Strategic Cost Analysis
5.2.4 Consideration of Information About Industry Structure
5.3 The German Version of Activity-Based Costing
5.3.1 Introduction