From Cost To Control | Hardcover

From Cost to Control: A Practical Guide to Effective Cost Management by Anu Agrawal is a practical guide to understanding, managing, and controlling business costs. It focuses on how costs behave in real-world businesses and how cost information can support pricing, profitability, profit planning, product mix decisions, and day-to-day operations.

Moving beyond expense tracking and textbook costing, the book presents cost management as a business decision-making tool. It covers hidden cost leakages, overhead control, pricing decisions, margin analysis, and building cost awareness across an organisation, using practical explanations and business scenarios rather than a primarily academic approach.

About This Book

From Cost to Control examines the relationship between business costs and profitability. Readers learn how to understand true product and business costs, identify areas where costs may be leaking, and approach overhead management while considering business growth.

The book also explores how costing information can influence pricing decisions and profit planning. Product mix and margin analysis are covered alongside the use of cost information in everyday operational decisions, helping readers connect financial analysis with broader business choices.

Written for practical application, the book emphasises explanations and business scenarios over formulas and compliance-focused discussions. CA Anu Agrawal draws on more than 26 years of experience in teaching and consulting across India and abroad to present perspectives on cost accounting and financial management.

What You'll Discover

• How to understand true product and business costs
• Ways to identify hidden cost leakages within a business
• Approaches to managing overheads while considering growth
• How cost information can support pricing decisions
• Profit planning and product mix considerations
• Margin analysis and its role in business decisions
• Using cost information for day-to-day operational decisions
• Building greater cost awareness across an organisation

Perfect For

• Business owners and entrepreneurs managing business costs
• CFOs, finance heads, and financial controllers
• Cost accountants and management accountants
• Operations and plant managers
• CA, CMA, MBA, and commerce students

Why You'll Love This Book

From Cost to Control connects cost accounting with practical business decisions, covering cost management, pricing, profitability, overheads, and operational choices. Anu Agrawal's experience in teaching and consulting informs a practical approach designed to help business owners, finance professionals, managers, and students understand how cost information can be used beyond routine calculation.