Readings in Management Accounting

by Young, S. Mark

• ISBN13: 9780131091092
• ISBN10: 0131091093
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

KEY BENEFIT: Readings in Management Accounting, 2nd edition, is a compilation of recent business press and academic articles. The articles parallel the contents of Management Accounting, 2nd edition, and are taken from the Journal of Cost Management, Management Accounting, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, the Harvard Business Review and other sources. Each section of the book is introduced with a summary of articles and their overall contribution to the topic. Each reading concludes with a set of questions designed to provoke thought and analysis.

Table of Contents

Management Accounting: Information That Creates Value

Be Data Literate-Know What to Know

Cost/Management Accounting: The 21st Century Paradigm

Management Accounting: In the Era of Electronic Commerce

A Framework for Management Accounting and Control Systems

Strategic Cost Management and the Value Chain

ABC and High Technology: A Story with a Moral

ABC and Life-Cycle Costing for Environmental Expenditures

Cost Management Concepts and Cost Behavior

How Cost Accounting Distorts Product Costs

What Are the Costs of Variability?

The Outsourcing Decision

Traditional Cost Management Systems

Cost Management Concepts and Principles

How Much Does that Product Really Cost?

The Rise and Fall of Time-Based Manufacturing

Activity Based Cost Management Systems

Is ABC Suitable for Your Company?

Customer Profitability Analysis: Challenges and New Directions

ABM Lifts Banks Bottom Line

Unbundling the Cost of Hospitalization

Using Management Accounting Information for Activity and Process Decisions

Accounting for Time: Reengineering Business Processes to Improve Responsiveness

Designing an Information System Using Activity-Based Costing and the Theory of Constraints

Effective Long-Term Cost Reduction: A Strategic Perspective

Using Management Accounting Information for Pricing and Product Planning

How Manufacturers Price Products

Activity-Based Costing for Marketing Distribution Channel Profitability

Formula for Success: Target Costing for Cost-Plus Pricing Companies

Using Management Accounting Information for Investment Decisions

How ABC was Used in Capital Budgeting

Analyzing Capital Investments in New Products

Using Activity Based Management to Justify ERP Implementations

Management Accounting and Control Systems for Strategic Purposes: Assessing Performance Over the Entire Value Chain

Control Tomorrow's Costs Through Today's Design

The Elements of Supply Chain Management

Managerial Accounting and Environmental Compliance Costs

Implementing Management Innovations Successfully: Principles for Lasting Change

Motivating Behavior in Management Accounting and Control Systems

Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System

The Control Function of Management

Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work

Using Budgets to Achieve Organizational Objectives

Continuous Budgeting at the Hon Company

Budgeting Gamesmanship

Budgeting Made Easy

Organizational Design, Responsibility Centers and Financial Control

Transfer Pricing with ABC

What Is EVA, and How Can It Help Your Company?

"Greening" with EVA

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