This revised Eight edition of the Sultan Chand Cost Accounting textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the concepts and techniques needed to master cost accounting principles. Through clear explanations, real-world examples, and practice problems, this textbook helps students gain proficiency in the key cost accounting concepts including cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, job costing, activity based costing, budgeting, and variance analysis. Detailed discussions of manufacturing, service and joint products costing along with operating and standard costing systems equip students with a solid understanding of cost terms, concepts and methods. With downloadable Excel templates, this textbook is an essential guide for students looking to develop their skills in cost and management accounting. This book contains 836 selected typical examples from various recent examinations. This is a ?TWO-IN-ONE? book covering both theory and problems giving due examination-oriented weightage. 740 ?Exercises? contain ?objective type?, theoretical and practical questions. Key examination points at the end of each chapter summarise the focal issues from different examinations. It is for I.C.W.A. (Inter), C.A. (Inter), C.S. (Inter), B. Com./ M. Com.