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by: Jan E. Bell, James H. Cypher, Patricia H. Dears, John J. Dutton, Mark D. Fergson, Keith Hallin, Charles G. Marx, Peter A. Zampino  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.1552 EAN: 9780786310531 ISBN: 0786310537 Label: Irwin Professional Pub Manufacturer: Irwin Professional Pub Number Of Pages: 250 Publication Date: 1997 Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub Studio: Irwin Professional Pub Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: ``This book provides great insights and perspectives into target cost management practice by combining theory and practice both in the U.S. and Japan.''--Hiroshi Oakano, Professor, Osaka City University. ``Target costing is an essential tool for companies striving to achieve and maintain a position of true cost competitiveness. This book makes an important contribution to the field of strategic cost management, and should be required reading for any executive interested in achieving world-class business performance.''--Charles H. Noski, Senior Vice President and CFO, Hughes Electronics. Target costing has been successfully used as a srategic weapon by Japanese companies for nearly two decades. Now, with Target Costing, Shahid L. Ansari and Jan E. Bell help you understand the tools manufacturers must use by strengthen their companies' competitive advantages. The one-and-only reference on how target costing is building a culture of excellence in many organizations todoay. Target Costing illustrates how this management approach: helped companies like Chrylser, Caterpillar and Boeing make impressive comebacks; centers on the principle that cost management starts before a product is produced; shows why investors looking for solid companies can use target costing as a sign of market dominance. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent introduction to the topic of target costingThis book gives an excellent overview of the topic, written in an easy understandable way. The authors have researched numerous articles and studies and compiled them into this work. The book also contains a lot of tables and graphs to illustrate the text. The foundations and the scope of target costing are well discussed and a small case study gives an idea how target costing is working in a practice. Moreover, there are a lot of references to literature and some examples from industry discussed. ... Read More Rating:  - best practice best theorythis book is best for persons to understand the target costing indeeply with plain english. this book is also suitable for cost management in the globe. Rating: - BEST PRACTICE BEST THEORYThis book provided more detail for target costings, more useful everyday, in both practical and theorical case. Moreover, this book use plain english for whoever in the world. 
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