The Handbook of Cost Management gives in-depth insight into various cost management techniques, enabling you to see how a successful activity-based costing system works and to align strategy and customer expectations using financial and non-financial performance metrics. You can also learn how to reduce costs over the entire life cycle of a product with target product development costs that link customer requirements to product functions and benefits.

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