Introduction 1 Part 1: Introducing Managerial Accounting 7 Chapter 1: The Role of Managerial Accounting 9 Chapter 2: Using Managerial Accounting in Your Business 27 Part 2: Managing Costs and Profitability 37 Chapter 3: Classifying Costs 39 Chapter 4: Figuring Cost of Goods Manufactured and Sold 49 Chapter 5: Teaching Costs to Behave: Variable and Fixed Costs 61 Chapter 6: Allocating Overhead 79 Chapter 7: Job Order Costing: Having It Your Way 93 Chapter 8: Process Costing: Get In Line 107 Chapter 9: Straight to the Bottom Line: Examining Contribution Margin 127 Part 3: Using Managerial Accounting Techniques to Make Decisions 145 Chapter 10: Capital Budgeting: Should You Buy That? 147 Chapter 11: Reality Check: Making and Selling More than One Product 161 Chapter 12: The Price Is Right: Knowing How Much to Charge 171 Chapter 13: Spreading the Wealth with Transfer Prices 181 Part 4: Planning and Controlling Operations 193 Chapter 14: Responsibility Accounting 195 Chapter 15: Master Budgets: Planning for the Future 205 Chapter 16: Flexing Your Budget: When Plans Change 221 Chapter 17: Variance Analysis: To Tell the Truth 227 Part 5: Managerial Accounting and Strategy 245 Chapter 18: Managing Risks: What Could Go Wrong? 247 Chapter 19: The Balanced Scorecard: Reviewing Your Business's Report Card 259 Chapter 20: Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility 275 Part 6: The Part of Tens 285 Chapter 21: Ten Key Managerial Accounting Formulas 287 Chapter 22: Ten Careers in Managerial Accounting 295 Chapter 23: Ten Legends of Managerial Accounting 299 Index 305.