During the past years, the limitations of traditional cost accounting systems in today's competitive environment have been widely documented. This text provides material that enables the reader to analyze the...
This book illustrates the importance effective cost management systems in providing a supportive environment in which reliable and relevant management information can be generated.
First published in 1999. This text aims to consider how the financial controller/management accountant decides to design a cost management system given the range of approaches to cost managment advocated in recent years.
Offering a multidisciplinary roadmap for the design, development, and implementation of a strategic cost system, this book shows how to design a cost system to become a more effective decision-making tool and a source of competitive ...
Management operations, Market research, Decision-making, Management techniques, Cost accounting, Risk analysis, Design, Systemology, Production management, Project management, Risk assessment, Management, Quality control, Planning
Covering established and emerging areas in the fast changing field of management accounting, this work discusses accounting practices such as budgeting, costing, responsibility accounting and capital investment analysis.
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 comprehensive text can be used by students, experienced system engineers, cost analysts and managers to improve their understanding of the wide range of issues involved in the evaluation of system life cycle cost-effectiveness.
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Volume two of the Handbooks of Management Accounting Research consists of two groups of chapters. The first draw together research that has focussed on particular management accounting practices.