Some shelf and edge wear.There are writing/highlighting marks in the book. However, most of the pages are clean and binding is tight. Solid Book. Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan - Harvard Business School.

The Design of Cost Management Systems: Text, Cases, and Readings

Business & Money

Cooper, Robin

Management & Leadership

PRENTICE/HALL

During the past years, the limitations of traditional cost accounting systems in today's competitive environment have been widely documented. This text provides material that enables the reader to analyze the defects of existing, traditional systems and offers advice on designing systems.

Kaplan, Robert S.

Pearson College Div

Providing valuable insight into the latest practice and design philosophies, this collection of readings and cases analyzes the defects that exist with traditional cost management systems, and shows how to design systems that will benefit a wide range of organizations. Opens with a thorough introduction to cost systems - with discussions on their use, product and process costing, operational control, financial reporting, and strategic relevance - and explores target costing, and ABC and product design and development. Considers the foundations of activity-based costing, including its necessity for companies, cost hierarchy, and activity attributes, and dedicates entire sections to the use of cost systems for managing customer and supplier relationships, and for designing and developing new products. Second Edition features include many new cases and a critical study of service industry and activity-based budgeting. For management consultants, CFO's, and controllers.

Design of Cost Management Systems (2nd Edition)

Pearson

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book characterizes a notion of type that covers both linguistic and non-linguistic action, and lays the foundations for a theory of action based on a Theory of Types with Records (TTR). Robin Cooper argues that a theory of language based on action allows the adoption of a perspective onlinguistic content that is centred on interaction in dialogue; this approach is crucially different to the traditional view of natural languages as essentially similar to formal languages such as logics developed by philosophers or mathematicians. At the same time, he claims that the substantialtechnical advantages made by the formal language view of semantics can be incorporated into the action-based view, and that this can lead to important improvements in both intuitive understanding and empirical coverage. This enterprise uses types rather than possible worlds as commonly employed instudies of the semantics of natural language. Types are more tractable than possible worlds and offer greater potential for understanding the implementation of semantics both on machines and in biological brains.

From Perception to Communication: A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Oxford University Press

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Return Of The Timewaster Letters

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

SPHERE

"Rita fell down the stairs at twenty-two minutes past midnight." Robin Cooper turns his hand to diary writing in this hilarious new novel. All the absurdity, bad luck. and boundless optimism of his previous books are here, as we discover the man behind the letters. The year starts badly for Robin, losing his job for sending so many letters in work time, and for his wife Rita, who sprains her ankle yet again. But Robin has a cunning plan—his marrying of the crossword and sudoku into his devilish "crossoku", which might just make their fortune. This is a hilarious and strangely heartwarming story of a great British comic character. Abridged.

The Timewaster Diaries: A Year in the Life of Robin Cooper

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

By now, most companies know that activity-based costing, that innovative accounting system that breaks down overhead far more precisely than old-fashioned systems do, can be used to trim waste, improve service, and make better product-mix and pricing decisions. Yet the actual design and implementation of a successful ABC system remains largely a mystery for many companies. Implementing Activity-Based Cost Management demystifies the process of setting up an activity-based costing system. The authors analyze the experiences of eight real-life companies that took on the challenge of implementing an ABC system, revealing the mistakes, successes, and ultimate triumphs that resulted in each case. What emerges is a set of generally accepted principles that every financial manager can use to steer by when considering how best to implement ABC, without sacrificing vast amounts of time and money. This collection of case studies helps managers: understand the real value of ABC (including how it benefits nonfinancial managers and even shareholders); learn to identify good design decisions, in relation to their own organizational dynamics; and realize the importance of taking action based on the insights gained through ABC analysis. Financial managers, management accountants, analysis, and financial consultants will find this award-winning book a reliable resource for helping them understand the process of implementing an ABC system. It provides valuable insights from a wide variety of companies that have actually made ABC work.

Implementing Activity-Based Cost Management: Moving from Analysis to Action : Implementation Experiences at Eight Companies (Bold Step Research)

Finance

Inst of Management Accountants

When Lean Enterprises Collide presents a new theory of competition for manufacturers racing to create the most innovative product at the lowest prices. The author shows that the key to success in this environment is the integrative management of cost, quality, and functionality. Robin Cooper describes eight innovative and aggressive cost management techniques, including target costing and value engineering.

When Lean Enterprises Collide: Competing Through Confrontation

Industries

Harvard Business Review Press

Two of the most innovative thinkers in the field present a work that represents the single best resource for understanding and implementing activity-based cost management. Kaplan and Cooper reveal that most companies don't know how to measure accurately, influence, or understand the fundamental cost drivers in their businesses. They then provide a detailed and comprehensive blueprint that will enable managers to make better decisions and to promote organizational learning and improvement. Cost and Effect takes the management, finance, and accounting fields to an entirely new level, as the authors demonstrate how the principles of activity-based costing and other advanced cost management techniques, such as target and kaizen costing, can drive business performance. Using lively examples from a variety of leading companies worldwide—including Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, AT&amp;T, the Swedish wire manufacturer Kanthal, Kirin Beer, and Procter &amp; Gamble—they show how to create integrated, knowledge-based systems that provide meaningful information on current and past performance.The innovation systems described in Cost and Effect will help you: determine where improvements in quality, efficiency, and productivity will have the highest payoffs; assist front-line employees in their learning and improvement activities; make better product mix and capital investment decisions; negotiate more effectively on price, product features, quality, delivery, and service to promote win-win relationships with your customers; choose low-cost suppliers who are truly low cost, not just low price; design products and services that meet customers' expectations - and that can be produced and delivered at a profit; and, integrate your activity-based cost system into reporting and budgeting processes to reveal the sources of excess capacity. Everyone involved in running a business—from general managers and strategic planners to financial executives, IT professionals, and operations managers—must read this book to learn how innovative cost and performance measurement systems can enhance their organizational profitability and performance.

Cost & Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance

Economics

The Timewaster Diaries

Humor & Satire

Little, Brown Book Group

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The Design of Cost Management Systems: Text, Cases, and Readings

The Design of Cost Management Systems: Text, Cases, and Readings

Design of Cost Management Systems (2nd Edition)

From Perception to Communication: A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics)

Return Of The Timewaster Letters

The Timewaster Diaries: A Year in the Life of Robin Cooper

Implementing Activity-Based Cost Management: Moving from Analysis to Action : Implementation Experiences at Eight Companies (Bold Step Research)

When Lean Enterprises Collide: Competing Through Confrontation

Cost & Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance

The Timewaster Diaries