Quantitative Models in Accounting: A Procedural Guide for Professionals

by Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

Overview

This professional book is designed for managers involved in the use of quantitative techniques to solve accounting-based problems. Belkaoui takes the reader in hand and carefully reviews the mathematical and statistical techniques needed to understand quantitative models, and then introduces those models of relevance to accounting areas of cost-volume-profit analysis, cost estimation, linear programming, cost control, inventory models, capital budgeting, and network analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899301860
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/20/1987
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

AHMED BELKAOUI is Professor of Accounting at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Table of Contents

Review of Mathematics
Review of Probability and Statistics
Review of Matrix Algebra
Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis under Uncertainty
Cost Estimation: Regression Analysis
Cost Estimation: The Learning Curve
Linear Programming
Quantitative Approaches to Cost Control
Inventory Models in Cost Accounting
Capital Budgeting
Control of Complex Programs Network Analysis