ABSTRACT
Understand how to integrate management accounting into your TQM and JIT systems * Learn how to use Value Added Accounting to make better strategic decisions * Find out how to use advanced costing techniques to correctly price products and services * Trace the development of modern best practice back to the breakthrough insights of the field's leading experts
Every modern company now has to compete in a market environment that is becoming ever faster, more complex and competitive. Management accounting must respond to these changes, otherwise its risks becoming irrelevant to real business needs.
This book demonstrates how the discipline can raise itself up to a new level of performance, allowing it to cope with challenges such as flexible manufacturing systems, flatter and leaner organisations, strategic alliances and globalisation. It explains how cutting edge management accounting techniques can transform a firm's operations and prospects, enabling it to become the best of the best.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
part |22 pages
Becoming a World Class Organization
chapter |9 pages
World class organizations: conventional wisdom
chapter |11 pages
World class organizations: the missing link
part |51 pages
Advanced Costing Methods
chapter |17 pages
Activity-based costing
chapter |16 pages
Cost of quality
chapter |16 pages
Target costing activity-based
part |50 pages
Advanced Performance Measures
chapter |17 pages
Financial performance measures
chapter |14 pages
Non-financial performance measures
chapter |17 pages
Benchmarking
part |52 pages
Strategic Management Issues