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Synopsis
Two of the most innovative thinkers in the area of financial management have written a work that will stand for many years as the single best resource for understanding and applying acitivity-based cost management. Cost and Effect takes the management, finance, and accounting fields to an entirely new level. Arguing that most companies don't know how to measure accurately or understand fully what really drives costs in their businesses, the authors present a blueprint for designing new cost systems that will enable managers both to make better decisions and to facilitate learning. Kaplan and Cooper demonstrate how the principles of activity-based costing can drive business performance. Using lively examples from a variety of companies worldwide-inclduing Caterpillar, the Swedish wire manufacturer Kanthal, Kirin Beer, and Procter & Gamble-they show to how create integrated, knowledge-based systems that provide meaningful information on current and past performance. Everyone involved in running a business-from general managers and strategic planners to financial executives, IT professionals, and operations managers-must read this book.
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Kaplan and Cooper provide a comprehensive overview of the principles, possible uses, and benefits of activity-based management that will help managers mine its full potential. --Dr. Erwin Schneider, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Kaplan and Cooper present a structured and concise look at the importance of activity- based costing and the position it should take in world-class performance management systems. Cost and Effect will be required reading for all our performance management consultants. --Ralph W. Canter, National Partner in charge of Performance Management, KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
Activity-based costing is a powerful tool that continues progressing under the leadership of its creators, Bob Kaplan and Robin Cooper. Finally, here is the book that brings together all of their ideas for driving improved performance--invaluable information for executives, operations managers, and accountants. --Erik F. Riswick, President, Maplehurst Bakeries, Inc.
The definitive work on activity-based management, Cost and Effect will serve as a blueprint for the next generation of management accounting. --Srikant Datar, Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
About the Author
Robert S. Kaplan is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is the co-author of The Balanced Scorecard and Relevance Lost and the editor of Measures for Manufacturing Excellence.
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