Activity-Based Cost Management in Government

by Gary Cokins

Everything You Need to Streamline Agency Costs and Expenditures You've heard about the enormous savings potential of Activity-Based Cost Management (ABC/M) - now it's time to put this powerful system to work in your organization. Get started today with the advice and strategies you'll find in Management Concepts' newest book, Activity-Based Cost Management in Government. This 400+ page book guides you through every phase of activity-based from setting up a basic system through its organizational implementation. In one concise resource, you now have everything you need to streamline all aspects of your organization's costs and expenditures. Written in easy-to-understand language and clearly illustrated, Gary Cokins' Activity-Based Cost Management in Government provides the financial techniques -Determine the true and actual costs of services and cost rates
-Implement process improvements departmentally and organization-wide
-Evaluate the pros and cons of outsourcing and privatization decisions versus internal delivery
-Align financial and budgetary activities to the organization's mission and strategic plan

432 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2001