Lianabel Oliver

Designing Strategic Cost Systems (eBook, PDF)

How to Unleash the Power of Cost Information

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a multidisciplinary roadmap for the design, development,and implementation of a strategic cost system, this book shows howto design a cost system to become a more effective decision-makingtool and a source of competitive advantage for the organisation. Itdescribes how to structure a cost systems design project anddiscuss the issues that should be addressed upfront from amanagement, operations, and costing perspective. Includes a URL site containing key terms and helpful Exceltemplates. Highlights the logistics of putting together and managing theproject team. Addresses the technical and political issues that may arise as theproject unfolds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780471662693
• Artikelnr.: 37301900

Autorenporträt

LIANABEL OLIVER, MBA, CPA, CMA, is President and CEO of Pathways PR Inc., a company that provides training and consulting services in the areas of cost management, strategic planning, budgeting, performance measurement, statistics, quantitative modeling, accounting processes, and general business management. She has extensive industry experience in the areas of accounting and management and is the author of The Cost Management Toolbox: A Manager's Guide to Controlling Costs and Boosting Profits. Her client base includes Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, and local manufacturing firms. She can be reached at pathwayspr.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1. Is Your Cost System Obsolete? Chapter
2. What Constitutes a Strategic Cost System? Chapter 3. Redesign Process.
Chapter 4. Conceptualizing the Cost Model Design. Chapter 5. How to
Calculate Costs. Chapter 6. Costing Issues. Chapter 7. Cost Systems Setup
and Test. Chapter 8. Performance Measurement and Reporting. Chapter 9.
Common Pitfalls. Chapter 10. Lessons Learned. Appendix A: Examples of Terms
and Definitions. Appendix B: Time-Based Capacity Models. Appendix C: Use of
Monte Carlo Simulations to Set Standards. Glossary. References. Index.