From Cost to Performance Management: A Blueprint for Organizational Development

✍ Scribed by Catherine Stenzel, Joe Stenzel

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Every manager is responsible for cost and performance management in one form or another. This book provides an unbiased survey and explanation of the cost and performance management approaches and methods currently available for application in business. Topics covered include cost management and performance management/measurement options including ABC/M, Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management, and Balanced Scorecard.Contrasts with managerial accounting textbooks, which tend to be conceptual and theoretical and not easily adaptable to practical situations.Assists readers in choosing the best approach or blend of methods to address specific business problems. Supports learning through real-world applications.Provides a complete presentation of field-tested cost management and performance management/measurement options.

✦ Table of Contents

From Cost to Performance Management......Page 3
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
1 Developmental Discipline In Cost and Performance Management......Page 19
2 Cost Management: Control and Profitability......Page 45
3 Cost Types: Early Communication Attempts......Page 73
4 Standards, Budgets, and Forecasts: Learning to Compare and Coordinate......Page 98
5 Operational Resource Accounting: Learning New Rules and Roles......Page 135
6 Processes, Activities, and Resources: Shaping Organizational Identity......Page 171
7 Intentional Tactics: Patterns, Participation, and Performance......Page 209
8 Quantum Strategy: Release, Reliance, and Reversal......Page 252
9 Accounting for the Common Wealth......Page 290
Appendix A: The Basic Components and Terminology of a Traditional Income Statement......Page 307
Appendix B: A Simplified Traditional Balance Sheet Format......Page 309
Appendix C: Analysis with a Purpose......Page 311
Appendix D: ABM Concepts and Terms......Page 313
Appendix E: Recommended Reading......Page 317
Glossary......Page 321
Endnotes......Page 331
Index......Page 341