pt. 1. Overview. 1. Introduction to cost and management accounting in a global business environment. 2. Introduction to cost management systems -- pt. 2. Systems and methods of product costing. 3. Organizational cost flows. 4. Activity-based cost systems for management. 5. Job order costing. 6. Process costing. 7. Special production issues: lost units and accretion. 8. Implementing quality concepts. 9. Cost allocation for joint products and by-products. 10. Standard costing -- pt. 3. Planning and control. 11. Absorption/variable costing and cost-volume-profit analysis. 12. Relevant costing. 13. The master budget. 14. Capital budgeting. 15. Financial management -- pt. 4. Decision making and evaluating performance. 16. Innovative inventory and product management techniques. 17. Emerging management practices. 18. Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing in decentralized organizations. 19. Measuring and rewarding organizational performance.