The Cost Management Toolbox: A Manager's Guide to Controlling Costs and Boosting Profits

How to use financial information to strategically manage costs. Managers rarely get financial information the way they really need it. How can a nonfinancial manager minimize costs with the financial information he or she does get By reading and absorbing this clear, concise new book.THE COST MANAGEMENT TOOLBOX lucidly explains how financial information--especially information relating to costs--is generated and reported in today's service and manufacturing organizations. Avoiding hard-to-grasp technicalities, it shows business professionals how to: * Accurately determine how well their business is performing * Quickly diagnose financial and operational problems * Effectively evaluate new business propositions * Confidently forecast future trends and project future costs * Strategically plan and prepare a departmental budget * Strictly analyze costs, including the rarely-discussed area of service costing.
Author: Oliver, Lianabel

Publisher: AMACOM

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

ISBN-10: 081447053X

ISBN-13: 9780814470534