This post covers a list of the best books for cost accounting in India. This list includes the most popular accounting textbooks as well as reference books, useful for courses like MBA, MMS, BBA, PGDM, BCom, MCom, and other management streams. Below are the best text and reference books for cost accounting for commerce and management students and professionals.
Cost Accounting and Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Book By Kalpesh Ashar
This popular Cost Accounting book written by Kalpesh Ashar and published by Vibrant Publishers is a part of the self-learning management book series. This book mainly focuses on the introductory part, CVP analysis, cost allocation and decision-making. This book also includes a chapter summary and practice exercise solutions.
Author | Kalpesh Ashar |
Edition | 4th edition |
Publisher | Vibrant Publishers |
No. of Pages | 138 |
Content
- Introduction
- CVP analysis
- Decision Making
- Activity-Based Costing
- Support Dept. Cost Allocation
- Cost Control
Cost Accounting: Texts and Problems Reference Book By M. C. Shukla
Author | Kalpesh Ashar |
Edition | 4th edition |
Publisher | Vibrant Publishers |
No. of Pages | 138 |
This is one of the most popular & one of the best Cost accounting books written by M. C. Shukla. This textbook is useful for Management and commerce students. This includes students of MBA, MMS, PGDM, BBA, BA, B. Com, M. Com, CA, CFA, CS and ICWA. This book includes useful theory & more than 500 problems and illustrations. Below is detailed information about this book.
- Authors: M.C. Shukla, T. S. Grewal & Dr M. P. Gupta
- No. of Pages: 900+ Approx.
- Publisher: S. Chand and Company Private Limited, New Delhi (An ISO 9001:2008 Company)
Key Features
- One of the most popular book
- Covers most of the concepts
- Revised & Updated Edition
- A large number of problems & illustrations
- Indian Context
Content
- Introduction & Elements of cost
- Materials
- Labour
- Direct or Chargeable Expenses
- Overheads
- Unit Costing
- Unit Costing Part 2
- Job, Batch & Contract Costing
- Process Costing
- By Product Costing
- Activity-Based Costing
- Operating Costing
- Operating Costing
- Cost Control Accounts
- Integrated Accounts
- Reconciliation of cost & financial accounts
- Cost Audit and Cost accounting record rules
- Uniform Costing & IFC
- Cost Control, reduction,
- Marginal Costing
- Standard costing & variance analysis
- Budgetary Control
Cost Accounting Made Simple: Cost Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less
This is an easy & Simple guide to understand various concepts of cost accounting for beginners. This book is not to teach you everything about cost accounting and make you expert in the subject but to provide easy to understand introduction to the subject. After reading this book, you may feel familiar and comfortable with various concepts and terms of cost accounting.
- Author: Mike Piper, CPA
- Edition: 3rd edition
- Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt Ltd
- No. of Pages: 123 Approx.
Content
- What is cost accounting?
- The flow of cost accounting in a manufacturing environment
- Control accounts & subaccounts
- Fixed Vs variable costs
- CVP analysis
- Cost assignment
- COst Hierarchy
- Job Order Costing
- Process Costing
- Activity-Based Costing
- Budgeting
- Variance Analysis
Cost Accounting: Principles & Practices Book Reference By M. N. Arora
This book provides easy to understand information about introduction to cost account. It also includes useful problems to solve, illustrations and explanations. This book is useful for MBA, BBA, Bcom, CA, CS & other commerce students.
- Author: M. N. Arora, Priyanka Katyal
- No. of Pages: 470+ Approx.
- Publication: Vikas Publishing House Private Limited
- Edition: 12th
Content
- Overview
- Material Cost
- Labour COst
- Overhead COst
- Activity-Based Costing
- Output or unit costing
- Job and batch costing
- Contract Costing
- Process Costing
- Joint Costing
- Operating Costing
- Non-Integrated & Integrated Accounts
- Reconciliation of cost & financial accounts
- Model Test Papers
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