Designing Strategic Cost Systems: How to Unleash the Power of Cost Information

Offering a multidisciplinary roadmap for the design, development, and implementation of a strategic cost system, this book shows how to design a cost system to become a more effective decision-making tool and a source of competitive advantage for the organization. It describes how to structure a cost systems design project and discuss the issues that should be addressed upfront from a management, operations, and costing perspective.