ABSTRACT

Over the last two decades, cost management has been an area of dynamic change and development. This is evident in the extensive inventory of new, high-profile techniques that have emerged.

With cost management now firmly established as a distinct sub-discipline within management accounting, The Routledge Companion to Cost Management is a timely reference volume covering both practical developments and research in this area. Topics covered include:

  • Cost control issues
  • Cost analysis and decision making
  • Cost management systems
  • Environmental cost management

With chapters from an international team of contributors, this prestigious companion will prove an indispensible addition to any library with aspirations of keeping up-to-date with the world of accounting.

part I|101 pages

Cost control issues

chapter 2|23 pages

Budgetary control

What's been happening?

chapter 3|24 pages

Management accounting system problems in context of Lean

Development of a proposed solution

chapter 4|15 pages

ICT systems and cost management

chapter 5|11 pages

Functional analysis

chapter 6|14 pages

Target costing

Market-driven cost management

part II|88 pages

Cost management and decision-making

part III|70 pages

Inter-organizational cost management perspectives

part IV|122 pages

Strategy and cost management