ALERT: The Legacy WileyPLUS platform retires on July 31, 2021 which means the materials for this course will be invalid and unusable. If you were directed to purchase this product for a course that runs after July 31, 2021, please contact your instructor immediately for clarification. This package includes a three-hole punched, loose-leaf edition of ISBN 9781119185697 and a registration code for the WileyPLUS course associated with the text. Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that your instructor requires WileyPLUS. For customer technical support, please visit http://www.wileyplus.com/support. Cost Management: Measuring, Monitoring, and Motivating Performance, Third Canadian Edition was written to help students learn to appropriately apply cost accounting methods in a variety of organizational settings. To achieve this goal, students must also develop professional competencies, such as strategic/critical thinking, risk analysis, decision making, ethical reasoning and communication. This is in line with the CPA curriculum and the content of this edition and the problem materials is mapped to the CPA. Many students fail to recognize the assumptions, limitations, behavioural implications, and qualitative factors that influence managerial decision making. The textbook is written in an engaging step-by-step style that is accessible to students. The authors are proactive about addressing the challenges that instructors and students face in their teaching and learning endeavors. They utilize features such as realistic examples, real ethical dilemmas, self-study problems and unique problem material structured to encourage students to think about accounting problems and problem-solving more complexly.
This book is excellent for an operations person seeking better understanding of finance, or the finance person wishing for an introduction to value-based thinking." -Brian Maskell, President, BMA Inc.
Improve the accuracy of project estimates and make better in-progress modifications by following the discipline-independent approach mapped out in this book.
This concise book demonstrates how to establish realistic estimates, how to control a projects schedule and costs, and how to develop the projects plan and processes for successful project completion.
This book illustrates the importance effective cost management systems in providing a supportive environment in which reliable and relevant management information can be generated.
Cases and Readings in Strategic Cost Management for Use with Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis
After reading this book, you will have an understanding of the power of ABC/M as a tool to understand costs and make better business decisions." —John F. Morrow, CPA, AICPA Vice President, The New Finance "Gary Cokins has helped light the ...
This text aims to teach you about management, and how cost management is used by managers to make better decisions and improve their companies. In teaching these key management skills, this text takes on a strategic focus.
In such cases , a team would pass on its suggestion to another team to develop a strategy for this cost element . In Figure 4-7 the team at Anything Inc. argues that with the exception of administration costs , all other costs were ...
'Cost Management' emphasises that changing conditions often require a change in cost management systems, stressing the dynamic and exciting nature of the field.
This text aims to teach management concepts and methods, and to demonstrate how managers use cost management information to make better decisions and improve their organization's competitiveness.