Cost Management
A Strategic Emphasis
5th Edition
Published on 1. November 2009
Book
Hardback
992 pages
978-0-07-352694-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis", by Blocher/Stout/Cokins is the first cost accounting text to offer integrated coverage of strategic management topics in cost accounting. The text is written to help students understand more about management and the role of cost accounting in helping an organization succeed. This text aims to teach management concepts and methods, also to demonstrate how managers use cost management information to make better decisions and improve their organization's competitiveness. In teaching these key management skills, the text takes on a strategic focus. It addresses issues such as: How does a firm compete? What type of cost management information is needed for a firm to succeed? How does the management accountant develop and present this information? This text helps students learn why, when, and how cost information is used to make effective decisions that lead a firm to success.
More details
Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 284 mm
Width: 217 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
2241 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-352694-2 (9780073526942)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
10/2006
4th Edition
McGraw Hill Higher Education
€158.45
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Persons
Gary M. Cokins, CPIM, is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. He has received CAM-I's Robert A. Bonsack Award for Distinguished Contributions in Advanced Cost Management and was the lead author of the highly regarded An ABC Manager's Primer (Irwin, IMA, CAM-I, 1992.
Content
Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, 5, 2010 Part 1: Introduction to Strategy, Cost Management, and Cost Systems Chapter 1: Cost Management and Strategy Chapter 2: Implementing Strategy The Value Chain, the Balanced Scorecard, and the Strategy Map Chapter 3: Basic Cost Management Concepts Chapter 4: Job Costing Chapter 5: Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Customer Profitability Analysis Chapter 6: Process Costing Chapter 7: Cost Allocation: Departments, Joint Products, and By Products Part 2: Planning and Decision Making Chapter 8: Cost Estimation Chapter 9: Profit Planning: Cost Volume Profit (CVP) Analysis Chapter 10: Strategy and the Master Budget Chapter 11: Decision Making with a Strategic Emphasis Chapter 12: Strategy and Long Term Investment Analysis Chapter 13: Cost Planning for the Product Life Cycle: Target Costing, Theory of Constraints (TOC), and Strategic Pricing Part 3: Operational Level Control Chapter 14: Operational Performance Measurement Sales, Direct-Cost Variances, and the Role of Nonfinancial Performance Measures Chapter 15: Operational Performance Measurement Indirect Cost Variances and Resource-Capacity Planning Chapter 16: Operational Performance Measurement Further Analysis of Productivity and Sales Variances Chapter 17: The Management and Control of Quality, Six Sigma, and Lean Accounting Part 4: Management Level Control Chapter 18: Strategic Performance Measurement Cost Centers, Profit Centers, and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Chapter 19: Strategic Performance Measurement: Investment Centers Chapter 20: Management Compensation, Business Analysis, and Business Valuation