Management Accounting

by Ralph Adler

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136007293
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/11/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	196
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Ralph William Adler

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Becoming a World Class Organization; Chapter 2 World class organizations: conventional wisdom; Chapter 3 World class organizations: the missing link; Part 2 Advanced Costing Methods; Chapter 4 Activity-based costing; Chapter 5 Cost of quality; Chapter 6 Target costing activity-based; Part 3 Advanced Performance Measures; Chapter 7 Financial performance measures; Chapter 8 Non-financial performance measures; Chapter 9 Benchmarking; Part 4 Strategic Management Issues; Chapter 10 Strategic cost management; Chapter 11 Strategic investment decisions; Chapter 12 Strategic dimensions to transfer pricing and outsourcing; Chapter 13 A destiny for management accounting List of abbreviations Glossary Name index Company index Subject index;