Target Costing: The Next Frontier in Strategic Cost Management

Describes the scope, framework, process, and tools for implementing an integrated target costing system, detailing aspects of the process such as focus on relationships with customers, suppliers, and dealers, and illustrating how the method has helped companies including Chrysler and Boeing. Includes b&w tables, charts, and diagrams. For managers in marketing, engineering, finance, support, and logistics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Dr. Shahid L. Ansari

Dr. Shahid L. Ansari is a Professor of accounting and MIS at California State University at Northridge. He received his Ph.D. in accounting and organizational behavior from Columbia University. He has taught at UCLA, NYU, the Naval Postgraduate School and INSEAD in Fountainbleau, France. As co-author of Management Accounting: A Modular Series, Dr. Ansari won IMA's Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education in 1996. He was formerly president of the Western American Accounting Association.

Dr. Jan Bell

Dr. Jan Bell is a Professor of accounting and MIS at California State University at Northridge. She received her Ph.D in accounting and behavioral science from UCLA, and she also holds a CPA from the State of Tennessee. Previous to CSUN, she taught at Columbia University, Santa Clara University and INSEAD in Fountainbleau, France. Dr. Bell is well known for her research in human problem solving and cultural aspects of accounting and control systems. As co-author of Management Accounting: A Modular Series, Dr. Bell won IMA's Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education in 1996.

CAM-I

The Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International (CAM-I) Cost Management Systems (CMS) Program is internationally recognized as the leading forum for the advancement of cost and resource management practices. Organized in 1986 as a coalition of leading thinkers from industry, government and academia, the CMS Program has accomplished extensive research and development of new management methods. The CMS program is acknowledged worldwide for its development of new management methods. The CMS program is acknowledged worldwide for its development of Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Activity Based Management (ABM).