Study guide for use with cost management: a strategic emphasis. /
Edward J. Blocher, Kun H. Chen and Thomas W. Lin
- 2nd ed.
- New York: McGraw Hill, c2002.
- v, 330 p.: ill.; 27cm.
Contents: Cost management: an overview -- Strategic analysis and strategic cost management -- Basic cost concepts -- Activity-based costing and management -- Target costing: theory of constraints, and life-cycle costing -- Total quality management -- Cost estimation -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Strategy and the master budget -- Decision making with relevant costs and strategic analysis -- Capital budgeting -- Job costing -- Process costing -- Cost allocation: service departments and joint product costs -- The Flexible budget and standard costing: direct materials and direct labor -- Standard costing: factory overhead -- Managing marketing effectiveness, productivity, and customer profitability -- Management control and strategic performance measurement -- Strategic investment units and transfer pricing -- Management compensation and business valuation.