Activity-Based Cost Management in Government - Hardcover

Cokins, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567261108 ISBN 13: 9781567261103

Publisher: Management Concepts Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Everything You Need to Streamline Agency Costs and Expenditures

You've heard about the enormous savings potential of Activity-Based Cost Management (ABC/M) - now it's time to put this powerful system to work in your organization. Get started today with the advice and strategies you'll find in Management Concepts' newest book, Activity-Based Cost Management in Government.

This 400+ page book guides you through every phase of activity-based accounting: from setting up a basic system through its organizational implementation. In one concise resource, you now have everything you need to streamline all aspects of your organization's costs and expenditures.

Written in easy-to-understand language and clearly illustrated, Gary Cokins' Activity-Based Cost Management in Government provides the financial techniques to:

-Determine the true and actual costs of services and cost rates
-Implement process improvements departmentally and organization-wide
-Evaluate the pros and cons of outsourcing and privatization decisions versus internal delivery
-Align financial and budgetary activities to the organization's mission and strategic plan

About this title

About the Author

Gary Cokins, CPIM is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. Gary Cokins was the lead author of the acclaimed An ABC Manager's Primer, sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturers-International (CAM-I). Gary's second book, Activity Based Cost Management: Making it Work (McGraw-Hill, 1996), was judged by the Harvard Business School Press as "read this book first."

Edition details

• Publisher: Management Concepts Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567261108
• ISBN 13: 9781567261103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432