This book illustrates the importance effective cost management systems in providing a supportive environment in which reliable and relevant management information can be generated.
The Design of Cost Management Systems: Text and Cases
The Design of Cost Management Systems: Text, Cases and Readings
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.
Cost Management for Today's Advanced Manufacturing: The CAM-I Conceptual Design
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 ...
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Cost Management Systems: A Digest of the Relevant Literature
This book deals with the systems of cost reduction that originated in Japan. These are mostly new systems that did not exist in western practices before they were utilized in Japan.
The principle aim of this collection is to give the reader some understanding of why the design of management accounting systems needs to be rethought to meet the needs of strategic management, and to indicate how this might be done.