Life-Cycle Costing
Using Activity-Based Costing and Monte Carlo Methods to Manage Future Costs and Risks
Published on 13. May 2003
336 pages
978-0-471-46919-3 (ISBN)
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Everyone jokes about the 20/20 hindsight of cost management. InLife-Cycle Costing, Jan Emblemsvag proposes to do somethingabout it.
Here's a new approach to life cycle costing that bringsactivity-based costing, risk, and uncertainty into the forefront.You'll focus on future costs and learn how you can perform any typeof cost management activity better than before by introducinguncertainty into models and exploiting them to the max.
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Life-Cycle Costing
Using Activity-Based Costing and Monte Carlo Methods to Manage Future Costs and Risks
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03/2003
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Wiley
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JAN EMBLEMSVÅG is a management consultant with Det NorskeVeritas Consulting, where he works on cost management, riskmanagement, and business development projects. Formerly, he was apartner with Considium Consulting Group AS. He is coauthor, withBert A. Bras, of Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management:A Different Approach to the ISO 14000 Compliance.
Content
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction.
What Does It Cost?
The Role of Life-Cycle Costing.
Why Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing?
Notes.
2. Basics of Life-Cycle Costing.
What Is a Life Cycle?
What Is a Cost?
Four Ways of LCC.
Notes.
3. Uncertainty Analysis and Risk Management.
What are Risk and Uncertainty?
Uncertainty, Risk, and Utility.
Common Ways of Analyzing Risk and Uncertainty.
How Belief Sheds Light on Risk and Uncertainty.
Reduce Risk by Introducing Uncertainty: How Monte Carlo MethodsWork.
Traditional Risk Management.
Notes.
4. Activity-Based Costing.
Motivating Example.
Activity-Based Costing.
ABC Example and Case Study.
From the Trenches.
Notes.
5. Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing.
Step 1: Define the Scope of the Model and the Corresponding CostObjects.
Step 2: Obtain and Clean Bill of Materials for All CostObjects.
Step 3: Identify and Quantify the Resources.
Step 4: Create an Activity Hierarchy and Network.
Step 5: Identify and Quantify Resource Drivers, ActivityDrivers, and Their Intensities.
Step 6: Identify the Relationships between Activity Drivers andDesign Changes.
Step 7: Model the Uncertainty.
Step 8: Estimate the Bill of Activities.
Step 9: Estimate the Cost of Cost Objects and Their PerformanceMeasures.
Step 10: Perform Monte Carlo Simulations and RelevantAnalyses.
Further Explanation Regarding Some Steps.
Notes.
6. Case Study: Life-Cycle Costing and Tire Disposal.
What the Decision Is About.
Traditional LCC Implementation.
Activity-Based LCC Implementation.
Discussion.
Closure.
Epilogue.
Notes.
7. Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing for Platform SupplyVessels.
Operating a Platform Supply Vessel.
Problem Statement and System Boundaries.
Information Sources.
Activity-Based LCC Model Implementation and Results.
Identifying the Major Operational Risks.
Closure.
Notes.
8. Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing at WagonHo!
WagonHo!'s New Strategy and Business Idea.
Developing an Activity-Based LCC Model.
Results and How to Use Them.
Closure.
Notes.
9. From Hindsight to Foresight.
Activity-Based LCC Revisited.
Ideas for the Future.
Some Thoughts at the End.
Notes.
Appendix A Monte Carlo Simulation Example.
Problem Definition.
Hypotheses to Be Tested.
Results and Discussion.
Appendix B SFI Group System.
Glossary.
Acronyms.
Index.
