ABSTRACT
My purpose for this chapter is to give the reader some detailed information about cost tables, what they look like and how they work. All the companies that I have visited in Japan regard their cost table data as sacred information. is information represents a competitive advantage for most companies, so this information is guarded and treated as con dential. us, my second purpose of including the information in this chapter is for a company to learn what it is going to take to become the ruthless competitor that will win the business war.
