Blocher, Edward. <br/><br/>
Cost management : a strategic emphasis. / 
Edward Blocher, Kung H. Chen, Thomas W. Lin. 
 - Boston :  Irwin/McGraw-Hill,  1999. 
 - xxvi, 854 p. :  ill. (some col.) ;  28 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes indexes. 
<br/><br/>Contents: Introduction to cost management: Cost management: an overview -- Strategic analysis and strategic cost management -- Cost drivers and basic cost concepts -- Contemporary cost management concepts: Activity-based costing and management -- Target costing, theory of constraints and life-cycle costing -- Total quality management -- Management planning and decision making: Cost estimation -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Strategy and the master budget -- Decision making with srategic emphasis -- Capital budgeting -- Cost management systems: Job costing -- Process costing -- Cost allocation: service departments and joint product costs -- Cost accounting and operational control -- The Flexible budget and standard costing: direct materials and direct labor -- Standard costing: factory overhead -- Managing productivity and marketing effectiveness -- Management control: Management control and strategic performance measurement -- Strategic investment units and transfer pricing -- Management compensation and the evaluation of the firm. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0070059160 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98008633  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cost accounting.<br/>Managerial accounting.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HF5686.C8B559 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.15/52