Costing towards effectiveness / guest editor: Gerald Vinten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vinten, Gerald.

Series:

Managerial auditing journal ; v.20, no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auditing, Internal.

Management audit.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Standard costing, according to various authors, is inconsistent with today'smanufacturing environment (e.g. Monden and Lee, 1993; Ferrara, 1995; Drury, 1999).Instead, to meet the intensely, competitive, global business environment, companiesshould use tools or strategies such as JIT, ABC, TQM, process reengineering, life cycleassessment and target costing.

Contents:

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Is standard costing obsolete? Empirical evidence from Malaysia; An empirical investigation of the importance of cost-plus pricing; Scorecard for academic administration performance on the campus; The application of the interperiod tax allocation method in the Spanish firms; Budget practices case studies; The use of performance measures as an integral part of an entity's strategic plan; A forensic examination of the causal mechanisms of rework in a structural steel supply chain; Econometric analysis of marketing potential of OIC countries; Book reviews

Corrigendum

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-50858-2

9786610508587

1-84544-271-7

OCLC:

191038892