Find all of the following, explained in plain-English:
*Fixed costs, variable costs, and how to use them to perform cost-volume-profit analysis for a business
*Product costs, period costs, and why the distinction is important
*Direct costs, indirect costs, and how to assign each of them to cost objects for better decision-making
*How to use activity-based costing to allocate overhead costs
*Job order costing and process costing
*How to budget for a business and how to use variance analysis to identify potential problems when results vary from budgeted amounts