Management Accounting-Performance Evaluation

Management Accounting-Performance Evaluation
Author: Robert Scarlett
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0750667117

Incorporating legislative and syllabus changes, this edition maintains the popular loose-leaf format and contains: practice questions throughout; revision section; topic summaries; recommended reading articles from a range of journals; and more.

Costing for the Service Industry

Costing for the Service Industry
Author: Veda Malagatti
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1527557952

A significant and innovative feature of this textbook is its detailed insights into the use of costing methodology for practical implications. It will serve to foster the reader’s analytical and critical thinking skills, and it highlights both traditional and the most current practices of costing methodology using real examples drawn from the service industry. Its methodological focus will allow the reader to understand the introduction of relevant costs, their functions and their behavior towards uses and limitations of cost allocations.

ACCA Paper P5 - Advanced Performance Management Practice and revision kit

ACCA Paper P5 - Advanced Performance Management Practice and revision kit
Author: BPP Learning Media
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1445324296

The examiner-reviewed P5 Revision Kit contains many past exam questions. It also includes an excellent 'Passing P5' section, which provides specific guidance relating to the exam. Areas the examiner favours, such as performance measures are emphasised. Also included are the examiner's own comments on past questions as well as the examiner's own answers at the back of the Kit.

EBOOK: Cost Management: Strategies for Business Decisions, International Edition

EBOOK: Cost Management: Strategies for Business Decisions, International Edition
Author: Marc Wouters
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Total Pages: 899
Release: 2012-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0077147286

This book is an adaptation of the successful US text Cost Management by Hilton, Maher and Selto, written specifically for an international audience.Major improvements include:Diverse and truly international examples of organizations - Examples used throughout the book are from all over the world and represent manufacturing, retail, not-for-profit, and service firms in many different countries. Completely restructured and rewritten text - The book has been rewritten, restructured and also shortened significantly to align content closer with international courses. Integral use of spreadsheets - Spreadsheet software is used for explaining techniques and making applications more realistic. In depth research - Summaries of international research studies that address important cost management issues have been updated and more references to recent research findings have been added. Intuitive explanation of accounting - The authors show directly how events impact the balance sheet and profit and loss account.

Japanese Cost Management

Japanese Cost Management
Author: Yasuhiro Monden
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1860941850

This book deals with the systems of cost reduction that originated in Japan. These are mostly new systems that did not exist in western practices before they were utilized in Japan. The book also presents the Japanese ways of carrying out the globally popular cost reduction practices.(1) It describes the strategic cost management conducted by top management through alliances between companies and/or between government and industry.(2) It shows the functional cost reduction systems along the various phases of the product life cycle, as follows: R&D ? Product development ? Manufacturing ? Administration and indirect operations(3) It conducts some humanistic or behavioral aspects of Japanese cost reduction systems.

Principles and Practices of Organizational Performance Excellence

Principles and Practices of Organizational Performance Excellence
Author: Thomas J. Cartin
Publisher: Quality Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 1999-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0873898826

Many organizations have realized bona fide reward payoffs using a systematic continuous approach to quality and quality improvement. Divided into two sections, this book begins with an easy overview of quality fundamentals and productivity followed by a more detailed explanation of the key quality improvement tools and techniques. Chapter topics include the evolution of quality, management by commitment and leadership, customer satisfaction, organization planning, partnerships and strategic alliances, need for a systems approach in process improvement, quality costs, current engineering, and much more. Includes many examples and study questions to make it useful as a business reference or text. Principles and Practices of Organizational Performance is the evolution of the author's best-selling book, Principles and Practices of TQM, certain portions of which have been included in this book. Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, 1999.Benefits: Discusses international quality standards(ISO). Provides an overview of the essentials in quality improvement awards - both national and international.liIncludes a glossary of terms that aid in communicating the language of improvement. Contents: Productivity Fundamentals, Management and Organization Change, Customer Satisfaction and Focus, Employee Empowerment, Quality Planning and Deployment, Quality Systems and Improvement, The New Quality Assurance, Supplier Quality Management, Quality Costs-Old and New, Tools for Continuous Improvement, Quality Standards and Awards, Quality Function Deployment, Design of Experiments

Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management 2008-2009

Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management 2008-2009
Author: Jae K. Shim
Publisher: CCH
Total Pages: 1784
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780808091721

CCH's Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management is a comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management. Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give CFOs, corporate financial managers, and controllers quick answers to day-to-day questions.

Operations and Service Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Operations and Service Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1812
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522539107

Organizations of all types are consistently working on new initiatives, product lines, and workflows as a way to remain competitive in the modern business environment. No matter the type of project at hand, employing the best methods for effective execution and timely completion of the task is essential to business success. Operations and Service Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive reference source for the latest research on business operations and production processes. It examines the need for a customer focus and highlights a range of pertinent topics such as financial performance measures, human resource development, and business analytics, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for managers, professionals, students, researchers, and academics interested in operations and service management.

Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems

Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems
Author: Alexandre Dolgui
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2021-09-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030859061

The five-volume set IFIP AICT 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2021, held in Nantes, France, in September 2021.* The 378 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 529 submissions. They discuss artificial intelligence techniques, decision aid and new and renewed paradigms for sustainable and resilient production systems at four-wall factory and value chain levels. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: artificial intelligence based optimization techniques for demand-driven manufacturing; hybrid approaches for production planning and scheduling; intelligent systems for manufacturing planning and control in the industry 4.0; learning and robust decision support systems for agile manufacturing environments; low-code and model-driven engineering for production system; meta-heuristics and optimization techniques for energy-oriented manufacturing systems; metaheuristics for production systems; modern analytics and new AI-based smart techniques for replenishment and production planning under uncertainty; system identification for manufacturing control applications; and the future of lean thinking and practice Part II: digital transformation of SME manufacturers: the crucial role of standard; digital transformations towards supply chain resiliency; engineering of smart-product-service-systems of the future; lean and Six Sigma in services healthcare; new trends and challenges in reconfigurable, flexible or agile production system; production management in food supply chains; and sustainability in production planning and lot-sizing Part III: autonomous robots in delivery logistics; digital transformation approaches in production management; finance-driven supply chain; gastronomic service system design; modern scheduling and applications in industry 4.0; recent advances in sustainable manufacturing; regular session: green production and circularity concepts; regular session: improvement models and methods for green and innovative systems; regular session: supply chain and routing management; regular session: robotics and human aspects; regular session: classification and data management methods; smart supply chain and production in society 5.0 era; and supply chain risk management under coronavirus Part IV: AI for resilience in global supply chain networks in the context of pandemic disruptions; blockchain in the operations and supply chain management; data-based services as key enablers for smart products, manufacturing and assembly; data-driven methods for supply chain optimization; digital twins based on systems engineering and semantic modeling; digital twins in companies first developments and future challenges; human-centered artificial intelligence in smart manufacturing for the operator 4.0; operations management in engineer-to-order manufacturing; product and asset life cycle management for smart and sustainable manufacturing systems; robotics technologies for control, smart manufacturing and logistics; serious games analytics: improving games and learning support; smart and sustainable production and supply chains; smart methods and techniques for sustainable supply chain management; the new digital lean manufacturing paradigm; and the role of emerging technologies in disaster relief operations: lessons from COVID-19 Part V: data-driven platforms and applications in production and logistics: digital twins and AI for sustainability; regular session: new approaches for routing problem solving; regular session: improvement of design and operation of manufacturing systems; regular session: crossdock and transportation issues; regular session: maintenance improvement and lifecycle management; regular session: additive manufacturing and mass customization; regular session: frameworks and conceptual modelling for systems and services efficiency; regular session: optimization of production and transportation systems; regular session: optimization of supply chain agility and reconfigurability; regular session: advanced modelling approaches; regular session: simulation and optimization of systems performances; regular session: AI-based approaches for quality and performance improvement of production systems; and regular session: risk and performance management of supply chains *The conference was held online.