Part A: The Manufacturing and Competitive Environment A1: Quality and Cost Management A2: Trends in Manufacturing and Time-Based Competition A3: The Just-in-Time Environment A4: Logistics A5: Design for Manufacturability A6: Managing Supply Chains: A Cost Management Perspective A7: ERP as a Strategic Management Tool: Six Evolutionary Stages Part B: Activity-Based Cost Systems B1: Activity-Based Costing: Theory and Practice B1A: Activity-Based Costing: A Technique for Strategic Decision-Making B2: Implementing Activity-Based Costing B3: Second-Generation Architecture B4: Using Activity-Based Costing to Improve Performance B5: Customer-Driven Costs Using Activity-Based Costing B6: Activity-Based Costing Implementation Issues B7: Activity-Based Costing Implementation Applications B8: Activity-Based Budgeting B9: Avoiding ABC Implementation Mistakes Part C: Other Activity-Based Cost Management Topics C1: An Overview of Activity-Based Management C1A: Using ABC to Become ABM C2: Activity-Based Costing for Service Businesses C3: Cost Management in Continuous Process Environments C4: Activity-Based Costing in Government Contracting C5: The Relationship Between Activity-Based Costing and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles C6: Software for Activity-Based Management C7: Benchmarking Strategies C8: Enterprise Package Systems C9: ABM and the Evolution Toward Enterprise ABM Part D: Strategic Cost Management and Investment Justification D1: Strategic Cost Management and the Value Chain D1A: Implementing Activity-Based Management Successfully: How You Do It Is Important D2: Target Costing D3: Product Life Cycle Management D4: Asset Deployment and Investment Justification D5: Life Cycle Management D6: Environmental Impacts on Life Cycle Costs D7: Customer Profitability D8: Real Options Analysis for Evaluating E-Business Opportunities D9: Cost and the Creation of Customer Value Part E: Behavioral, Organizational, and Performance Measurement Topics E1: Managing Behavioral and Organizational Factors Over the Cost Management System Life Cycle E2: Change Management E3: The Manufacturing Flexibility Concept: How to Evaluate and Enhance Its Performance E4: Responsibility Accounting and Controllability Networks E5: Implications of Contingent Control Research for Managers E6: Vital Signs: Using Performance Measurements to Chart Your Company's Future E7: Integrating Activity-Based Costing With Standard Costing Part F: Other Cost Management Topics F1: Accounting Simplification F2: Value Cost Improvements F3: Japanese Cost Management Practices F4: Integrating an Advanced Cost Management System Into Operating Systems F5: Applying the Theory of Constraint to Enhance Profitability F6: Reengineering Purchasing and Payables with Corporate Procurement Cards F7: The Balanced Scorecard in Manufacturing F8: Balanced Measurement Systems: The Critical Role of Alignment Part G: Cost Management for Specific Industries G1: Cost Management in the Automotive Industry G2: Cost Management in a Deregulated Electric Power Generation Market Appendixes Glossary Bibliography |