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Strategic cost management : the new tool for competitive advantage / John K. Shank, Vijay Govindarajan.

By: Shank, John KContributor(s): Govindarajan, VijayMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Free Press, c1993. ISBN: 0029126517Subject(s): Cost accounting | Managerial accountingDDC classification: 657.42 LOC classification: HF5686.C8
Contents:
1. An Introduction to Strategic Cost Management: New Wine, or Just New Bottles? -- 2. Strategic Cost Management: Three Key Themes -- 3. Demonstrating Strategic Versus Conventional Analysis: A Peek at the SCM Themes -- 4. The Value Chain Concept: The First Key to Effective Cost Management -- 5. Cost Analysis Considerations and Managerial Applications of Value Chains: An Extended Field Study -- 6. Explicit Attention to Strategic Positioning: The Second Key to Strategic Cost Management -- 7. Profit Variance Analysis: A Strategic Perspective on a Common Cost Management Tool -- 8. Differentiating Cost Management Systems Based on Strategic Positioning: A Field Study -- 9. Nonfinancial Performance Measures: Another Key to Strategically Adapted Cost Management -- 10. What Drives Cost? The Third Key to Strategic Cost Management -- 11. Product Line Complexity as a Cost Driver - Activity-Based Costing: Theory, Practice, and Limitations -- 12. Using and Abusing the ABC Concept: A Case Study -- 13. Measuring and Analyzing Cost for One Important Executional Cost Driver - Quality: The SCM Perspective -- 14. Strategic Analysis for One Important Structural Cost Driver - Technology Choices.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-263) and index.

1. An Introduction to Strategic Cost Management: New Wine, or Just New Bottles? -- 2. Strategic Cost Management: Three Key Themes -- 3. Demonstrating Strategic Versus Conventional Analysis: A Peek at the SCM Themes -- 4. The Value Chain Concept: The First Key to Effective Cost Management -- 5. Cost Analysis Considerations and Managerial Applications of Value Chains: An Extended Field Study -- 6. Explicit Attention to Strategic Positioning: The Second Key to Strategic Cost Management -- 7. Profit Variance Analysis: A Strategic Perspective on a Common Cost Management Tool -- 8. Differentiating Cost Management Systems Based on Strategic Positioning: A Field Study -- 9. Nonfinancial Performance Measures: Another Key to Strategically Adapted Cost Management -- 10. What Drives Cost? The Third Key to Strategic Cost Management -- 11. Product Line Complexity as a Cost Driver - Activity-Based Costing: Theory, Practice, and Limitations -- 12. Using and Abusing the ABC Concept: A Case Study -- 13. Measuring and Analyzing Cost for One Important Executional Cost Driver - Quality: The SCM Perspective -- 14. Strategic Analysis for One Important Structural Cost Driver - Technology Choices.

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