ISE Cost management a strategic empahsis - Ebook

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 Role of 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

Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, by Blocher/Stout/Juras/Smith is dedicated to answering the question: Why Cost Management? It answers this question by providing 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. And with Connect, an easy-to-use homework and learning management solution that embeds learning science and award-winning adaptive tools to improve student outcomes, instructors receive a course solution that includes high quality content and assessment paired with assignments that help students build the skills they need to succeed.