Cases And Readings In Strategic Cost Management For Use With Cost Management

An indispensable guide for managers concerned with cost, strategy, and business re-engineering. Experts on the strategic use of cost data, the authors show how stategic cost management is revolutionizing accounting practices in leading companies. Includes numerous examples. 120 line drawings.

This collection of readings and cases analyzes the defects with existing, traditional cost management systems, and shows how to design systems that will provide value to a wide range of organizations.

An accessible, practical survey of cost management methods Essentials of Cost Management provides an unbiased survey and explanation of the cost management approaches and methods currently available for immediate application in day-to-day activities. Rather than advocate a particular method, this book assists readers in choosing the best approach or blend of cost management strategies to address specific business problems. The expert authors also discuss cutting-edge topics such as target costing, capacity management, and activity-based costing/management.

Intended for managerial accounting courses, this supplement contains 35 case studies of real companies that illustrate different approaches to cost analysis, overhead allocation, product emphasis, pricing, and capital expenditure analysis. The third edition adds eight newer cases and deletes eight of the least popular older ones.

This textbook offers strategic management topics in conjunction with traditional cost accounting material. The distinguishing features of this book are its strategic cost management framework and the emphasis on using cases.