This book is a comprehensive and authentic textbook for those seeking a thorough understanding of strategic cost management in the modern business environment. It emphasises the importance of cost consciousness in the competitive business world, highlighting its role in the survival and sustainability of business concerns. Structured into 38 well-organised chapters, the textbook discusses traditional and modern cost management techniques, ensuring a broad and updated coverage of the subject matter. Special attention is given to Operations Research, simplifying complex topics like Simulation Modeling, Learning Curve Theory, Assignment Problems, Transportation Problems, Linear Programming, and Network Analysis for easier student comprehension. This book is tailored for students and professionals in higher-level business management courses. It is particularly beneficial for those preparing for M.Com., MBA, MFM, CA, CMA, and CS courses. The Present Publication is the 5th Edition, authored by Ravi M. Kishore, with the following noteworthy features: • [Simple & Lucid Language] The content is presented to simplify complex concepts, making it accessible to students and professionals alike • [Illustrations & Diagrams] The concepts within are elucidated through a multitude of illustrations and diagrams, making complex and advanced subjects more accessible • A significant focus is given to Operations Research, presented in an easy-to-understand manner • [Theory Questions] are included at the end of each chapter to aid in self-testing and reinforce learning • [Practical Problems] Each chapter is fortified with numerous solved practical problems for self-study, enhancing the hands-on learning experience The detailed contents of the book are as follows: • Overview of Strategic Cost Management • Cost Concepts for Decision-Making • Incremental, Relevant and Opportunity Cost Concepts • Activity-Based Cost System • Target Costing • Backflush Accounting and Resource Consumption Accounting • Throughput Accounting • Breakeven and Volume – Cost-Profit Analysis • Application of Marginal Costing Technique • Cost Control Through Standard Costing • Cost Management with Setting Budgets • Product Pricing – Methods and Strategies • Responsibility Accounting and Divisional Profitability • Interdivisional Transfer Pricing • Management of Marketing and Distribution Cost • Productivity Management • Capacity Management • Employee Training, Relocation and Cost of Strike • Pareto Analysis and Theory of Constraints • Just In Time and Lean Manufacturing • Quality Management – Systems and Techniques • Project Life Cycle Costing • Product Life Cycle Costing • Balanced Score Card • Business Process Outsourcing • Benchmarking • Value Chain Analysis • Supply Chain Management • MRP, MRP II and ERP • Management Information Systems • Uniform Costing and Interfirm Comparisons • Cost Audit and Management Audit • Simulation Modelling • Learning Curve Theory • Network Analysis (PERT and CPM) • Assignment Problem • Transportation Problem • Linear Programming • Mathematical Tables

An indispensable guide for managers concerned with cost, strategy, and business re-engineering. Experts on the strategic use of cost data, the authors show how stategic cost management is revolutionizing accounting practices in leading companies. Includes numerous examples. 120 line drawings.

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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

Written specifically for students with no previous experience of research and research methodology, the Third Edition of Research Methodology breaks the process of designing and doing a research project into eight manageable steps and provides plenty of examples throughout to link theory to the practice of doing research. The book contains straightforward, practical guidance on: - Formulating a research question - Ethical considerations - Carrying out a literature review - Choosing a research design - Selecting a sample - Collecting and analysing qualitative and quantitative data - Writing a research report The third edition has been revised and updated to include extended coverage of qualitative research methods in addition to the existing comprehensive coverage of quantitative methods. There are also brand new learning features such as reflective questions throughout the text to help students consolidate their knowledge. The book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the social sciences embarking on qualitative or quantitative research projects.

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