Strategic Cost Management

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Description
• The entire subject is presented in 38 Chapters.
• The book covers the traditional, as well as, modern cost management techniques.
• The book covers the chapters on Operations Research viz., Simulation Modelling, Learning
  Curve Theory, Assignment Problem, Transportation Problem, Linear Programming,
  Network Analysis.
• The book covers the latest developments in the subject.
• The book is a comprehensive work on the subject, which meets the requirements of all
  levels of Academic and Professional Courses.
• The concepts are explained with number of Illustrations and Diagrams for clear
   understanding of the subject.
• Lucid and comprehensive presentation of the complex and advanced subject matter,
  will help the students in easy understanding.
• At the end of each chapter number of Theory Questions are given for self testing.
• Number of Practical Problems along with their solutions are given at the end of each chapter.
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Contents
1. Overview of Strategic Cost Management 
2. Cost Concepts for Decision Making 
3. Incremental, Relevant and Opportunity Cost Concepts 
4. Activity Based Cost System 
5. Target Costing 
6. Backflush Accounting and Resource Consumption Accounting 
7. Throughput Accounting 
8. Breakeven and Volume - Cost-Profit Analysis 
9 Application of Marginal Costing Technique 
10. Cost Control Through Standard Costing 
11. Cost Management with Setting Budgets 
12. Product Pricing : Methods and Strategies 
13. Responsibility Accounting and Divisional Profitability 
14. Inter divisional Transfer Pricing 
15. Management of Marketing and Distribution Cost 
16. Productivity Management 
17. Capacity Management 
18. Employee Training, Relocation and Cost of Strike 
19. Pareto Analysis and Theory of Constraints 
20. Just In Time and Lean Manufacturing 
21. Quality Management: Systems and Techniques 
22.  Project Life Cycle Costing 
23. Product Life Cycle Costing 
24. Balanced Score Card 
25. Business Process Outsourcing 
26. Benchmarking 
27. Value Chain Analysis 
28. Supply Chain Management 
29. MRP, MRP II and ERP 
30. Management Information Systems 
31. Uniform Costing and Interfirm Comparisons 
32. Cost Audit and Management Audit 
33. Simulation Modelling 
34. Learning Curve Theory 
35. Network Analysis (PERT and CPM) 
36. Assignment Problem 
37. Transportation Problem 
38. Linear Programing 
Mathematical Tables 
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Author Details
Sri Ravi M. Kishore has studied Masters' Degree in Commerce in Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati and studied Bachelor of Laws in Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Kolkata and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, New Delhi. He has studied Post-Graduate Diploma Course in Personnel Management in Annamalai University. He has also completed ISO 9000 Quality Management Systems Auditor Course conducted by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance, London. He has worked in medium and large manufacturing concerns for over fifteen years in senior level management positions handling Finance, Accounting and Secretarial Functions. Presently he is practising  as a Management Consultant offering specialist services to the corporate sector. He is actively involved in the academic field and in teaching profession for overpast twenty years and has authored several books for Professional and Academic Courses in Finance, Accounting, Management.
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