Cost Management: Strategy and Introduction

Author: Edward J. Blocher [USA]
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This series of books, "Cost Management Translation Series," is centered around this theme. The series aims to help people understand how the concept of strategic success-based cost management is applied to organizations and how it successfully fulfills its intended role within them. It systematically elaborates on various aspects of cost management in modern organizations, from the introduction of the concept of strategic success to the formation of strategic decision-making, information systems, and management control. As a textbook, it may leave more food for thought for practitioners than for students.
This book is guided by strategic management, systematically introducing an overview of cost management, the content of strategic analysis and strategic cost management, as well as cost drivers and other basic cost concepts. On this foundation, it provides a comprehensive analysis and introduction to some of the major issues in contemporary cost management, including activity-based costing and activity-based management, target costing, theory of constraints, and product life cycle costing, as well as total quality management. As an introduction, its theoretical systematicity, practical goals, and comprehensive elaboration surpass other related works and textbooks.