Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis - Hardcover

Blocher, Edward; Stout, David; Cokins, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0073526940 ISBN 13: 9780073526942

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2009

Synopsis

Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, by Blocher/Stout/Cokins is the first cost accounting text to offer integrated coverage of strategic management topics in cost accounting. The text is written to help students understand more about management and the role of cost accounting in helping an organization succeed. This text aims to teach management concepts and methods, also to demonstrate how managers use cost management information to make better decisions and improve their organization’s competitiveness. In teaching these key management skills, the text takes on a strategic focus. It addresses issues such as: How does a firm compete? What type of cost management information is needed for a firm to succeed? How does the management accountant develop and present this information? This text helps students learn why, when, and how cost information is used to make effective decisions that lead a firm to success.

About this title

About the Author:

Gary M. Cokins, CPIM, is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. He has received CAM-I’s Robert A. Bonsack Award for Distinguished Contributions in Advanced Cost Management and was the lead author of the highly regarded An ABC Manager’s Primer (Irwin, IMA, CAM-I, 1992.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0073526940
• ISBN 13: 9780073526942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 992