Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis,9780078025532

Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis

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Edition: 6th
ISBN13: 9780078025532
ISBN10: 0078025532
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-09-06
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary

Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, by Blocher/Stout/Juras/Cokins is dedicated to answering the question: Why Cost Management? Blocher et al. provide the cost-management tools and techniques needed to support an organization's competitiveness, improve its performance, and help the organization accomplish its strategy. The text is written to help students understand the broader role of cost accounting in helping an organization succeed and not just the measurement of costs. While the text does include coverage of traditional costing topics (e.g., job-order costing, process costing, service-department cost allocations, and accounting for joint and by-products), its primary strength is the linkage of these topics, as well as more contemporary topics, to an organization's strategy. This message is reinforced by a dynamic author team, all four of whom have close ties to current cost management practice.

Table of Contents

PART ONE 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 and Customer Profitability Analysis

Chapter 6 Process Costing

Chapter 7 Cost Allocation: Departments, Joint Products, and By-Products

PART TWO PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING

Chapter 8 Cost Estimation

Chapter 9 Short-Term 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 the Analysis of Capital Investments

Chapter 13 Cost Planning for the Product Life Cycle: Target Costing, Theory of Constraints, and Strategic Pricing

PART THREE OPERATIONAL-LEVEL CONTROL

Chapter 14 Operational Performance Measurement: Sales, Direct-Cost Variances, and the Roleof Nonfinancial Performance Measures

Chapter 15 Operational Performance Measurement: Indirect-Cost Variances and Resource-Capacity Management

Chapter 16 Operational Performance Measurement: Further Analysis of Productivity and Sales

Chapter 17 The Management and Control of Quality

PART FOUR MANAGEMENT-LEVEL CONTROL

Chapter 18 Strategic Performance Measurement: Cost Centers, Profit Centers, and the Balanced Scorecard

Chapter 19 Strategic Performance Measurement: Investment Centers

Chapter 20 Management Compensation, Business Analysis, and Business Valuation

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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