Cost Management

PART ONEINTRODUCTION TO STRATEGY, COST MANAGEMENT, AND COST SYSTEMS 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 TWOPLANNING 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 THREEOPERATIONAL-LEVEL CONTROL Chapter 14 Operational Performance Measurement: Sales, Direct-Cost Variances, and the Roleof 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 FOURMANAGEMENT-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

Cokins, Gary
Gary M. Cokins, CPIM, is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. He has received CAM-Is Robert A. Bonsack Award for Distinguished Contributions in Advanced Cost Management and was the lead author of the highly regarded An ABC Managers Primer (Irwin, IMA, CAM-I, 1992.