Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis

by Edward Blocher

Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis by Blocher/Stout/Juras/Smith is dedicated to answering the question: Why Cost Management? It answers this question by providing cost-management tools and techniques needed to support an organization's competitiveness improve its performance and help the organization accomplish its strategy. The text is written to help students understand the broader role of cost accounting in helping an organization succeed - and not just the measurement of costs. While the text does include coverage of traditional costing topics (e.g. job-order costing process costing service-department cost allocations and accounting for joint and by-products) its primary strength is the linkage of these topics as well as more contemporary topics to an organization's strategy. And with Connect an easy-to-use homework and learning management solution that embeds learning science and award-winning adaptive tools to improve student outcomes instructors receive a course solution that includes high quality content and assessment paired with assignments that help students build the skills they need to succeed.New Co-author: Steven D. Smith is an associate professor of accountancy and the Kristine V. and Randy J. Vest Fellow in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University (BYU). Professor Smith's expertise is in the areas of management control systems focusing on the provision of incentives and performance measurement.

Genres: Business, Accounting, Reference, Textbooks, Nonfiction

976 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2000

Reviews

[Brianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a text book assigned for one of my MBA classes- Accounting for Internal Decision Making. I'm never going to be able to say that I loved an accounting text book- I am in marketing after all. But this was esay to follow and for the first time, I really felt like I understood what the authors were trying to explain.

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very dry

[Jenny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very very dry, even considering it's an accounting textbook.

[Holly Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

It dry. I read most of it. Some chapters were harder to get through than others

[Sherif · Rating 5 out of 5]

good & very easy to understanding & a lot of useful practice example

[Hazwani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decision Making & Control subject. Great example, easy to understand.