The aim of this established and best selling textbook is to provide an introduction to the theory and practice of cost and management accounting the book is intended primarily for accounting students who are pursuing a one or two semester basic introductory cost and management accounting course. Cost and management accounting an introduction for students pizzey alan 9781853960499 books amazonca. This book deals comprehensively with the elements of cost accounting their application to costing methods and their significance for management through budgetary control short term decision making and capital budgeting it is an extensive revision of the author s well known costing text and provides the student with a complete introduction to cost accounting. Introduction to cost and management accounting 1 what is cost cost is the monetary amount of resources or the consideration for using the resource invested or consumed or used up in its most simplistic form cost is monetary measurement of resource outflow due to any reason