The Power of Strategic Costing: Uncover Your Competitors' and Suppliers' Costs, Set Your Company's Target Costs, Maximize Your Profits - Hardcover

Brethauer, Dale M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814404863 ISBN 13: 9780814404867

Publisher: Amacom Books, 1999

Synopsis

This four-step costing strategy makes bottom-line numbers glow. Big cost reductions shine like gold on the bottom line. And they continue to accumulate golden profits when they're strategically managed.

How can managers be sure they're really on top of a predictable, money-saving cost control process? By following the four-step power strategy supplied by this book, managers will quickly understand how to: * Analyze their own company's costs and estimate their competitors' costs in order to target their most competitive costs * Follow a four-step procedure that ensures smooth, profitable process/product changes and continuous improvement * Negotiate lower material prices with power and establish win-win relationships with suppliers

There are plenty of case studies to illustrate the strategy at every step. An accompanying disk includes spreadsheets that assist in calculating estimates, cash flows, and financial ratios.

About this title

About the Author

Dale M. Brethauer (West Chester, PA) is a senior consultant at DuPont. Six years of intensive research into industrial cost factors and drivers led him to develop the unique cost estimating technique incorporated into this book. He is a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814404863
• ISBN 13: 9780814404867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174